By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Only the educated are free.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Well done is better than well said.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Never complain and never explain.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.