You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.