Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.