The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.