R.L. Blackmore

Among other things: "You must avoid being cheap and self-assertive". ...but do not talk nonsense about "inspiration"".
"You must improve your mind in every way, not for show".
"...your spiritual intensity which should be inexhaustible".
and
"In your relations with girls it is essential to get out of your own skin and watch their delicate evasive psyches wavering to and fro as a cat watches a mouse, and keep casting the golden net of your imagination about them, and they will grant you the most charming favours".
There you have it; timely advice from the youngest of the Powys brothers to Kenneth Hopkins, poet, novelist, biographer, children's writer, editor and essayist.… (meer)