If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.