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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. (attributed)

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.