Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about...
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents....