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Old-Fashioned Labor, the Writer

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“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.”

— Ray Bradbury

 

Difficulties of Reflection

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“If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work…into the yawning gulf…if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one…he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.”

— Honore de Balzac