Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

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.

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.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

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