Cormac McCarthy

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.