Before you quit, you have to try

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.