Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

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

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

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.

Custom makes monsters of us all.