Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.
Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.
People change and forget to tell each other.
The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.
They're fancy talkers about themselves writers. If I had to give young writers advice I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.