Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.