You never know what motivates you.
Well done is better than well said.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.