When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a... - Gustave Flaubert

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."