MATTHEW DAWKINS

"There is nothing to writing, all you do is sit at a typewriter and bleed."

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works."

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."