You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.
George Eliot... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.
George EliotOur selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
George Eliot