If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.