Know or listen to those who know.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
It's always too early to quit.
Leap, and the net will appear.
After a storm comes a calm.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.