we dig our graves with our teeth.
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.