So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.