Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
I can, therefore I am.
Only the educated are free.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Who seeks shall find.
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.