Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
You never know what motivates you.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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.