“Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.” – Ljupka Cvetanova

“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change/Courage to change the things I can/And wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.” – Kelly Barnhill

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford

“Caress the detail, the divine detail.” – Vladimir Nabokov

“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.” – Thomas Carlyle

“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” – Cormac McCarthy

“The world is a lot more fun when you approach it with an exuberant imperfection.” – Chris Baty

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” – Thomas Carlyle

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.” – Paulo Coelho