“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.”
More from George Eliot
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.”
“I meant to go away into silence, but I have not been able to do what I meant.”
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”