“I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up ...” — Owen King Quote

“I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.”

“When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I would play it - where first person writes a sentence, and the second person writes a sentence, and the third person writes a sentence, and so on until you get bored and have to go to bed.”

“I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do.”

“Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.”

“I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.”

“I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.”