Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.