Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

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