Words of Advice from Kaleb Nation

Man, this really helped me today. I know that my family keeps asking me when I am going to publish and I am curious of the same thing. Bob is my first chance at a fully fledged novel gaining its wings. But below were the words that I read today. They really resonated with me. If you are an author or writer yourself, you can't help but agree!

Source: http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/node/840769

“There is little difference between you and every person on the bestseller list right now.”
On September 22 of 2007, I wrote in my notebook:
"I want to record this so that I will never ever forget how it feels to be a completely unknown writer whose sole desire is to become what he has always dreamed—a real author whose work is read by people all over the world."
Every writer has experienced it countless times: the feeling that everything is to no end, that writing will go on forever, that no one will ever read those miserable, abysmal, pathetic sentences on the page before you. Is there really any hope it might turn into something? Is it even worth the time when all odds seem against you? I wrote that paragraph feeling overwhelmed.
Six months after writing it, I was offered a book deal.
People often ask how writers are able to dedicate months or years to creating a novel with just as little chance of being published as any of the thousands of others out there. Does it ever get depressing?
Often it does. But we can't stop. No writer can. It's the reason you're where you are today.
When you love something, it hurts to leave it. Writers write because they love writing. They love to know their characters, to enter their world, to weave plots and mysteries and secrets together. At the heart of it, there is little difference between you and every person on the bestseller list right now. You are using the same letters, the same keys on a keyboard, the same pens or pencils that make up all the greatest novels today.
Many of you are still teenagers and might think that what you write now has little merit. But Christopher Paolini wrote Eragon at 15, and was a bestseller by 19. Nancy Yi Fan wrote Swordbird at 11, and was published by 13. I started my first Bran Hambric book when I was 14, and was published at 20.
Did any of us know the words we were writing at that age would ever turn into anything? Of course not. But we wrote because we loved writing. You write because you love it, too.
Sometimes I wonder if authors who have been at it for years, and who have lost count of how many bestsellers they've written, ever forget about those early days. I can remember clearly just how much I dreamed of simply seeing my name on a cover. I've been published a year and I still feel a thrill every time I walk into a random bookstore and see my novel. It's a feeling that hasn't gone away. I promise—it makes all the work you're doing now worth it.
So remember today, as you write and hope and dream. Keep a record of it in your writing notebook. One day you'll want to look back and smile at it too.