No art should be fashionable.
One should have the courage of one's loneliness.
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.
As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.
Custom makes monsters of us all.
Expectation is the springboard of achievement.