For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. – T.S. Eliot
Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. – T.S. Eliot
Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. – T.S. Eliot
Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl