Margaret Atwood, From The Selected Poems Of Margaret Atwood; "She Considers Evading Him,"

Did you ever have a great idea for a Story, but knew that it was far beyond your skill level? What did you do?

That was how I felt about The Graveyard Book. So I wrote and wrote, determined that one day I would be a good enough writer to write that book. And nineteen years later I started it, and twenty one years later I finished it.

I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

This is lovely advice.

I took it too far like I always do

WRITE!! WHAT!! YOU!! WANT!!

If you don't love your writing, no one else will!

stay close to everything that makes you feel alive

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. Otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. You literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. You have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. The easy path does not exist. There is no get out of jail free card. You have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. And you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. It’s horrible but it’s truly the only way.