All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. ~Dorothea Brande

Her book Becoming a Writer publiDorothea Branded in 1934 is still in print and offers advice for beginning and sustaining any writing enterprise. Collins was a prominent literary figure in New York and a proponent of an American version of fascism which he explored in The American Review.