Husband, who originally hails from PA, wishes to make a U-Turn but is prevented by posted traffic signs.

Husband: New Jersey is such an ass backwards state.

Me: Whatever. We invented the light bulb. What did Pennsylvania ever invent?

Husband: America.

“The day I start a book 200 other people start books. And they’re smarter, and funnier, and more talented than I am, and you would enjoy them much more than you’re enjoying me. But too bad for them and too bad for you, ’cause I’m the guy that finished the book. That’s the reality.” -Stephen Hunter

Oddly inspiring in a “so what if I suck, I have the odds on my side!” kind of way.

And that’s why I love NaNoWriMo. It gets you started. It gives you the impetus to finally start, and/or finally finish. Knowing there are thousands of others out there trying to do the same, who are using this ridiculous deadline as cattle-prod and shame deterrent, means goddamnit, you better do it now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and during this one life, you should put your words down, and make your voice heard, and then let others hear your voice. And the only way any of that’s going to happen is if you actually do it. People can’t read the thoughts in your head. They can only read the thoughts you put down, carefully and with great love, on the page. So you have to do it, goddamnit. You have to do it, and you can step back and be happy. You can step back and relax. You can step back and feel something like pride.

Then of course you’ll have to revise it ten or twenty times, but let’s not talk about that yet.

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

-Dave Eggers’ 2010 NaNoWriMo pep talk