What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
Small things amuse small minds.
For there is never any way to go but in.
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.