If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.