Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.