S is for Steinbeck #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl #books

"I wonder how many people I looked at all my life and never seen."  
-John Steinbeck (Author of Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, In Dubious Battle, East of Eden, Travels with Charley)

Q is for Quindlen #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl #thursdaythroughts,#fbloggers, #amwriting, #quotes

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."  Ann Quindlen, author of Still with Bread Crumbs

M is for for Martel #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl

"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity-it's envy.  Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can." Yann Martel (Author of Life of Pi)

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say-Anais Nin

Professional writers

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit-Richard Bach

Finding the right words

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” 
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums


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Knocks me out

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” 
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Story gots to come out

"If a story is in you it's got to come out."-William Faulkner