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.

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

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

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.

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.

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.