“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. ”

“Haven't you ever observed how we live in an age of self-persecution? What a lot of things there are one might do that one doesn't - and yet why, God only knows. Work has become so tremendously important to-day, because so many have none, I suppose, that it kills everything else... Work, work, work . . . an abominable obsession - and always under the illusion it will be different later. And it never is different. Queer, isn't it, that anyone should do that with his life?”

“If you work hard and try your best absolutely anyone can do anything.”

“The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't”

“A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.”

“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.”