Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
The artist must be a stranger to the world.