One should have the courage of one's loneliness.
Custom makes monsters of us all.
As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.