If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

To survive, you must tell stories.

You have to be able to take it as well as dish it out. Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Success is not about seeking constant recognition; it's about finding fulfillment and satisfaction within yourself.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Never rub another man's rhubarb.

Literature is a window into the soul of a culture.