Quote for Monday

As for the amateur, his difficult is that his work, once on the page, hardens as cement hardens and can no more be changed. When he has learned to change it, to consider it in this light, to consider it in that, to hold the subject warm in his affections at the same time his mind appraises the form – when that time comes, he is no longer an amateur.

- Edith Ronald Mirrielees