Reading for writers is like training for athletes. - Linda Sue Park

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting.

My natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home, and it's going to seem, for all the world, like everybody else is just in my way, and who are all these people in my way?

Her sickness came from the water,” the nurse explained. “She should drink only good clean water. If the water is dirty, you should boil it for a count of two hundred before she drinks