"I. Anyone intending to embark on a major work should be lenient with himself and, having completed a..."

“I. Anyone intending to embark on a major work should be lenient with himself and, having completed a stint, deny himself nothing that will not prejudice the next.”

- “The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses”, from One-Way Street; published in Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926 (Harvard UP 1996), (via thearcadesproject)