Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Know or listen to those who know.
I can, therefore I am.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Either you run the day or the day runs 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.