Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Always desire to learn something useful.
I can, therefore I am.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Wherever you are - be all there.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
You never know what motivates you.
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.