The best thing is to write anything, anything at all that comes into your head, until gradually there is a calm and creative day.

Stephen Spender

Advice to aspiring writers: fasten your seat belts-it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Christopher Buckley

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.

Henry Fielding