The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.
Dorothea BrandeCriticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.
Dorothea Brande