"If any man wish to write in..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“A distracted existence leads us to no goal”

“A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”

“Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.”

“Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.”

“A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.”

“I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

“Hammer your thoughts into unity.”

“Use the right word, not its second cousin.”

“The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.”