Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.

Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany's made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!

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.

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.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

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