There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

You can't be both happy and ambitious.

Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.