Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.
If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.
Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.