Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.
I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.