“Every artist and every writer has to produce a certain amount of s----- work before they start getting to their good stuff and I feel it’s only been in the last few years that [I was able] to achieve any degree of competence.”
~~ Ho Che Anderson qtd. in Dale Jacobs’ interview w/Anderson in the International Journal of Comic Art 8.2 (Fall 2006), p. 376.
*Anne Lamott says something similar in Bird by Bird, but I never get tired of hearing this; it gives me hope.