I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
Octavia ButlerNo... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
Octavia ButlerPeople who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
Octavia Butler