“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”– Rita Mae Brown Related Quotes “You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.”– Hugh Laurie “At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life’s all about.”– Janis Ian “I don’t remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.”– Mark Haddon