“The one frightened of climbing mountains, forever lives in the ditches.”
“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”
“the mountain between us is one i cannot climb .”
“I had to climb a mountain. There were all kinds of obstacles in the way. I had now to jump over a ditch, now to get over a hedge, and finally to stand still because I had lost my breath.This was the dream of a stutterer.”
“Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.”
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”