Steve Jobs·2005Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Virginia Woolf·1929No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche·1882What does your conscience say? — You should become who you are.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.
Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Start sniffing the air, or glancing at the Trend Machine, and you are as good as dead, although you may make a nice living.
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
