As A Rule Of Thumb I Say,

To Write With Taste, In The Highest Sense, Is To Write [...] So That No One Commits Suicide, No One Despairs; To Write [...] So That People Understand, Sympathize, See The Universality Of Pain, And Feel Strengthened, If Not Directly Encouraged To Live On. If There Is Good To Be Said, The Writer Should Say It. If There Is Bad To Be Said, He Should Say It In A Way That Reflects The Truth That, Though We See The Evil, We Choose To Continue Among The Living. The True Artist [...] Gets His Sense Of Worth And Honor From His Conviction That Art Is Powerful--

When I Was A Child I Truly Loved: Unthinking Love As Calm And Deep As The North Sea. But I Have Lived, And Now I Do Not Sleep.

Self Pity Is Easily The Most Destructive Of The Non-pharmaceutical Narcotics; It Is Addictive, Gives Momentary Pleasure And Separates The Victim From Reality.

People Will Tell You That Writing Is Too Difficult, That It's Impossible To Get Your Work Published, That You Might As Well Hang Yourself. Meanwhile, They'll Keep Writing And You'll Have Hanged Yourself.

Poor Grendel's Had An Accident. So May You All.