K. D. Dowdall

“You fail only if you stop.”

~ Ray Bradbury

“This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won’t wash them away.”

~ Anne Lamott

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“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities, and have them relate to other characters living with him.”

~ Mel Brooks

“Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them out onto the page, then call them characters.”

~ C.K. Webb

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”

~Henry Green

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the…