Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

How we learn is what we learn.

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.