Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
For style beyond the genius never dares.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.