“Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.” KnowsStoriesFeelingsRunningTroubleThousandCriticismTalesArtisticRejectionInsultShadeComponentsQuiverWince Book:Becoming a Writer Source: Becoming a Writer
“If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.” IfsWritingBelieveMatterStoriesAbleHonestMajorsUniqueOriginals Book:Becoming a Writer Source: Becoming a Writer
