The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

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.

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

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