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

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

How we learn is what we learn.

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.

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

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

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.