Sometimes when you want to give up, you can't always find whatever will drive you on.

Sometimes, more often than you care to acknowledge, you find comfort in the words of others.

Charlotte Wood:
"To make, at all. To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it. It enlarges, does not diminish."

everlastingly grateful for moments like these. Those words came from her Stella award acceptance speech.

Charlotte Wood’s Stella Prize acceptance speech | The Stell...

persevere. With everything. Including my writing. And my book. Damn that thing.

Mr Veer and will visit him often.

he can sometime be troublesome, however.

found it hard to get in. It's never on the first knock.