Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.