The place in which I'll fit won't exist until I make it. - James Baldwin
'Don't wait for it,' I said. 'Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me.' - Anaïs Nin
I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself. - Jeanette Winterson
Write hard and clear about what hurts. - Ernest Hemingway