Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.

- Marcy Dermansky

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

- Marcy Dermansky

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

- Marcy Dermansky

You don't just change your whole life in one big step. It's the small things you do every day that pull over to the big things, like taking yourself …

- Marcy Dermansky

Whenever you do die people remember you, so it's not completely over. You don't 100 percent die when you die ever, because people still know who you …

- Marcy Dermansky

I think there are some people who don't have dreams so much - they have a job and money they earn. That sounds sort of condescending, but I think hav…

- Marcy Dermansky

I feel like everyone is living an unfulfilled life. When you reach that point of fulfillment, you want something more. But when you realize your life…

- Marcy Dermansky

There's never one "ding-dong" moment.You never know for sure if you're doing the right thing. Things don't end all at once.

- Marcy Dermansky

The scene that scares you the most, that you don't want to write because it's the most difficult to write-that's the one you have to write. So I thi…

- Marcy Dermansky