“If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!”
“If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.”
“Writing 1000 words is only daunting if you haven't written them. When you're done, it's pie.”
“Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy”
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
“You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.”