I’m not a writer. I’ve been fooling myself. It isn’t the great book I had hoped it would be. It’s just a run of the mill book. And the awful thing is that it is absolutely the best I can do.
John Steinbeck commenting on his book Grapes of Wrath
“I wrote that down and put it on a sticky note and put it on the top of my computer when I was struggling with one of my books. It’s exactly how I felt. I’m not saying I wrote something as good as Grapes of Wrath but I told myself, if John Steinbeck could reach that point of despair while writing, maybe, maybe there’s a little hope for me”.
Richard Louv author of Our Wild Calling:
How Connecting with Animals
Can Transform Our Lives—and Save Theirs
