Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

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

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.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

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.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.