You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:
that a writer never complains, never explains read more

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:
that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it
becomes available only when you read more

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it
becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you
know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit
until you get it.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we read more

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will
but grow and gather to itself such read more

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will
but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts
through it will blow up everything in its way.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not become
God for me, you wrong me.".

Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not become
God for me, you wrong me.".

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of read more

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.