The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

If you are going through hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Oscar Wilde)