The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).

No one is as smart as all of us.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

If I fail more than you do, I win.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.