Writing is like...

"Writing...is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

-Don Marquis

Born Again

"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."

-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Wrong Right

"Sometimes when things turn out wrong, it's because they would have turned out worse if they had gone right."

-Mark Amend

Willingness in Fear

"Fear is the biggest obstacle to our creativity. I don't believe it's possible to live a life free from fear, but courage is not the absence of fear; it's the willingness to act in the presence of fear."

-David Duchemin

Elsewhere the Sky

"Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky."

-Willa Cather

A Journey is a Person

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

-John Steinbeck

Sister Life Ghost Ship Salute

"I'll never know and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore."

-Cheryl Strayed