That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work.