Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.

You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time. In the same way, you can't build up a vocabulary if you never meet any new words. And to meet them you must read. The more you read the better.

Say what you have to say, and then stop.

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.