You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.

You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a book, you can open it again and again.

A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page.

One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

If you persist in doing what everyone feels you can't do, they'll soon see your success and ask "how did you do it?