“Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.”
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
“There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.”
“It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.”
“If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.”
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!”