By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.