Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.
William ZinsserThe best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.
William ZinsserThere's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.
William Zinsser