When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it. And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years - the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.

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.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.