we dig our graves with our teeth.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
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.