If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.