If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
Follow your heart, and you perish.
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.