“The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.”
“The fulfillment of the cultural mandate involves hard work, and men need to be hard in order to do the work.”
“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”
“You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire . . . The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps ... I can hardly write without envy. --Michelangelo on the dead.”
“(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.”
“Wants are never satiated. In fulfilling one desire, we neglect another.”