You cannot turn your winning attitude on when you think you 'need it.' You must work on it every day, every practice, every match - win or lose. Focus on playing to win, not playing to lose, for there is a season of difference between the two. John Kessel More Quotes by John Kessel More Quotes From John Kessel The conventional Aristotelian plot proceeds by means of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a series of events comprising a rising action, climax and denouement. John Kessel rising plot events action Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory. John Kessel reputation quality writing way Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century. John Kessel opposition inevitable half world Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters. John Kessel place he not-interested manners