If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.
Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.
You can't be both happy and ambitious.
As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.
Before you make the key, study the lock.
Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.