Octavia E. Butler said, “Never let pride or laziness prevent you from learning, improving your work, changing its direction when necessary. Persistence is essential...persistence to finish your work, to keep writing in spite of rejection, to keep reading, writing, submitting.”

Stuart Hall said writing accessibly can’t be done “at the expense of serious thinking, because the last thing that we want is a rousing populist work that doesn’t tell us anything.” As bell hooks said, “The point is not to render ideas less complex but to make the complex clear.”