Most People Sleep Themselves Stupid.

If You Imagine That You Will Be Able To Achieve Your Ideal By Ingeniously Planning Out A Timetable With A Pen On A Piece Of Paper, You Had Better Give Up Hope At Once.if You Are Not Prepared For Discouragements And Disillusions; If You Will Not Be Content With A Small Result For A Big Effort, Then Do Not Begin. Lie Down Again And Resume The Uneasy Doze Which You Call Your Existence.

The Gain In Self-confidence Of Having Accomplished A Tiresome Labour Is Immense.

Essential Characteristic Of The Really Great Novelist: A Christ-like, All-embracing Compassion.

You Wake Up In The Morning, And Lo! Your Purse Is Magically Filled With Twenty-four Hours Of The Unmanufactured Tissue Of The Universe Of Your Life! It Is Yours. It Is The Most Precious Of Possessions. No One Can Take It From You. It Is Unstealable. And No One Receives Either More Or Less Than You Receive.

Far From The Madding Crowd Is A Mistake On A Honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever You Are, If You're On A Honeymoon, You'll Get Quite As Much Solitude As Is Good For You Every Twenty-four Hours. Constant Change And Distraction -- That's What Wants Arranging For. Solitude Will Arrange Itself.