Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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.