If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

... 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. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

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

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