I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.