Nothing Is So Silly As The Expression

Those Who Have Never Been Ill Are Incapable Of Real Sympathy For A Great Many Misfortunes

With Each Book You Write You Should Lose The Admirers You Gained With The Previous One.

Actions Whose Motives He Cannot Understand That Is, Actions Not Prompted By The Hope Of Profit.

What Another Would Have Done As Well As You, Do Not Do It. What Another Would Have Said As Well As You, Do Not Say It; What Another Would Have Written As Well, Do Not Write It. Be Faithful To That Which Exists Nowhere But In Yourself - And Thus Make Yourself Indispensable.

The Bad Novelist Constructs His Characters; He Directs Them And Makes Them Speak. The True Novelist Listens To Them And Watches Them Act; He Hears Their Voices Even Before He Knows Them.