Author: Jennifer Sien

“Talent is long patience.” – Gustave Flaubert

“When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.” – Natalia Ginsburg

“Nothing splendid has been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.” – John Steinbeck

“There is nothing to writing; all you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” – Red Smith

“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.” – Fulton John Sheen

“A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” – Franz Kafka

“When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.” – Marjorie Holmes

“Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure — just a big field to wander in.” – Natalie Goldberg

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” – Ernest Hemingway