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.

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.

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now the other.

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

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

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