No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.
As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.
No art should be fashionable.
One should have the courage of one's loneliness.
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.
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.