“It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.”— Craig D. Lounsbrough Related Quotes “Most persons have died before they expired – died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes “I never wished something extraordinary”— “writing – like any art – is so damned personal that there really isn’t a right way to do it. You do what works for you; what matters is getting the words on the paper. Sure, if you hear advice, and it works, then excellent. But, if it doesn’t, you have to realize that perhaps nothing is wrong with you. You don’t jive with the advice.”— Mur Lafferty