end of the rope is tied off in your writer’s study. If there is any

We are not going to get out of this snare until we see the quest for authenticity for what it is—a hypocrisy factory, cranking out tight-weave superficiality by the yard.

The fact that you can’t remember things doesn’t mean that you haven’t been shaped by them.

G. K. Chesterton once said, “There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.” H. L. Mencken agreed with this, saying, “There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.”

Prepare things with an eye on reusing them in the future, and make sure to use (any useful) work from the past. This is how articles I have written are shaped into books, sermon outlines are shaped into books, Bible study outlines from fifteen years ago are lightly edited into continuous prose and turned into blog posts and may one day find their

If you try to wring every book out like it was a washcloth full of information (and nothing but information), all you will do is slow yourself down to a useless pace. Go for total tonnage, and read like someone who will forget most of it.

If you enjoy what you are living, you will enjoy writing about it.

Don’t despise a page or two of each book every time you sit down to read.

Reading lousy books is occasionally edifying, but do not make a practice of it. Life is short.