Courage is grace under pressure.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

-- Takeda Shingen

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

-- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

-- Yasushi Inoue

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyō Higuchi

Within the motive for crime lies society's contradiction.

-- Seichō Matsumoto

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann