The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.