You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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.