Edit thyself.
(Learn the big difference between what’s interesting to you
and what’s interesting—period.)

—Larry Strawther

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My 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

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Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Getting it wrong is part of
getting it right.

—Charles Handy

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