There's no rule for better writing. It's best to make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.

It's easy to be with someone who is completely different from you, but difficult when that person holds starkly different opinions from you.

You can never learn/improve if you are too proud to accept criticism.

Sometimes, we are simply trapped in the cage of our own emotions, unable to break those bars. It hurts!

It's difficult to carry the weight of responsibilities. But, it's more difficult to carry the weight of expectations.

Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises.

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.

Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.

There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.

Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls

Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment but if cooking is evanescent so is the ballet.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.