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.

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

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

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.