The Reality Is That Changes

Events Are Less Important Than Our Responses To Them.

To Be A Writer Is To Throw Away A Great Deal, Not To Be Satisfied, To Type Again, And Then Again And Once More, And Over And Over.

Do Not Work Primarily For Money; Do Your Duty To Patients First And Let The Money Follow; Our Life Is Short, We Don't Live Twice; The Whirlwind Will Pick Up The Leaves And Spin Them, But Then It Will Drop Them And They Will Form A Pile.

Learning Starts With Failure; The First Failure Is The Beginning Of Education.

When The Writing Is Really Working, I Think There Is Something Like Dreaming Going On. I Don't Know How To Draw The Line Between The Conscious Management Of What You're Doing And This State. . . . I Would Say That It's Related To Daydreaming. When I Feel Really Engaged With A Passage, I Become So Lost In It That I'm Unaware Of My Real Surroundings, Totally Involved In The Pictures And Sounds That That Passage Evokes.