. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

"I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me."

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.