A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
Wallace StegnerAre you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
Wallace StegnerGrub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if heโs far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he canโt afford self-doubt and he canโt let other peopleโs opinions, even a fatherโs, keep him from writing.
Wallace Stegner