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.

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

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

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.

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

Act as though it is impossible to fail.

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.