When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

You is getting nosier than a parker.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.