Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.
Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.
Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.