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

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.

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

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!

Be bold, free, and truthful.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

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