If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Well done is better than well said.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.