You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?