The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what oneโs fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.