14 Quotes by Craig Lancaster

Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?

I’m adrift. That’s the feeling I’ve had since setting out today – and, really, for much of this shitburger of a year – and I’ve finally found the word to describe that feeling.

For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.

I don’t feel sorry for myself. I’m not owed any of that. The opportunities were there, and I did not take them. I find it difficult to live with this sometimes.

Any fighter knows that regret that doesn’t inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you’re finished.