The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.
What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.