A to Z Challenge: Z

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant - you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place.

Trust your demon.

~ Roger Zelazny ~

Source: My Personal Demons

A to Z Challenge: Y

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar ~

Source: Music with Ease

A to Z Challenge: X

Source: Write to Health

For me, writing [was] a question of survival ... I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

~ Gao Xingjian ~

(refering to writing during the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-Tung)