Dan Becker

“Endings are where you remember what you actually have. When you come to the end of a story, when you accept that the story did for you what it could, when you let it find its proper conclusion, you often experience a short period of something that feels like sadness. Except it isn’t sadness. In the noisy hurly-burly of your nonwriting life, you’ve mistaken the natural quietness at a story’s end for sadness.”
― William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence

“You see again and again the flaws.’ ‘The failing of my hand, yes. The language of the eyes is ever perfect. Rendering it upon stone is where weakness is found.’ ‘These, Ulshun Pral, show few weaknesses.’ ‘Even so…”
― Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale

“But I wrote this book because I decline to accept the idea that a good day of writing was lucky, that I had no role in whether the Muse chose to visit on a given day. I have since learned that I have everything to do with whether I have a good day or a bad day of writing.”
― William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence

“Yet even once I left that job and lived for a while without the need for that work, I did not feel free—at least not all the time. So I began looking at those moments I did feel free. I felt free while I was writing;”
― William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence