Before you quit, you have to try

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.