Jean Arcaro

“It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.”
― William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust

“God helps them that help themselves.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.”
― Michael Chabon

“In a world of bosses, you are your own master”
― John Grogan, Marley & Me