Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?