
How writing a book is like stuffing marshmallows in your mouth
When you stuff marshmallows into your mouth, you do so one at a time. You don’t worry about which order they come in, you don’t organize them ahead of time, and you don’t pick them up, examine them, or ponder which ones are best before you stuff them in. In fact, you...Read moreExcept as we venture to create,
we cannot project ourselves
beyond ourselves to serve and lead.—Robert K. Greenleaf
Read moreMy wife took a look at the first version of something I was writing not long ago and said,
“Dammit, man, that’s high school stuff.”
I have to tell her to wait until the seventh draft, it’ll work out all right.
I don’t know why that should be so, that the first or second draft of everything
I write reads that way.—James Thurber
Read moreWords are like kisses—
they can express everything or
nothing.—Liz Glista
Read moreGetting it wrong is part of
getting it right.—Charles Handy
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