Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have enough fortitude and they probably wouldnt succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing.
Peter McWilliamsPrison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.
Peter McWilliamsThe comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
Peter McWilliamsPain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
Peter McWilliams