And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Life is so unlike theory.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. Scroll down for sources of quotations and special search engines. See also CQ's recommended links to biographical websites Trollope Search the Web. Richard Shea, 1993.