Silus Finley

We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing —- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day —- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours—- and so’s publication.

Robert Cormier