When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?