Writing is usually a solitary business, and it can get discouraging at times. As a morale-booster, I keep a number of quotes posted on my bulletin board where I can see them at all times.

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• Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. –E.L. Doctorow                                                                    

• In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming next--sometimes you even make a little outline --but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new--and for me, a very invigorating-- experience. In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.—Peter Matthiessen                                                                           

• Fiction means freedom.--Taika Waititi
   

• Don't worry about getting into the profession—write anyway to make your soul grow. That's what the practice of any art is. It isn't to make a living, it's to make your soul grow. –Kurt Vonnegut
   

• Write what you desperately care about—or are most afraid of. –Kent Haruf                                                          

• Pa felt that with children you build a reservoir of reflection, a rich background, so that if you are an artist or a writer or a musician, or whatever—it gives you more meat in depth. He often said a person is like a sponge, you soak everything up and wring it out now and then—so don't run away from experiences. –Andrew Wyeth                                                                                                                                        

• Fall in love and stay in love.  Do what you love, don't do anything else.  Don't write for money.  Write because you love to do something.  If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. --Ray Bradbury