I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better.
How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia. " "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.