[A]nd now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. – Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. – V. S. Naipaul

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim dont really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we dont really have very high, cultured conversations. – Helena Bonham Carter