Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. – Joan Didion
I never thought of losing, but now that it s happened, the only thing is to do it right. Thats my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. – Muhammad Ali