Daniel Belfort

In rejecting what is happening to us, we are de facto closed to the messages that the One behind reality is sending us.

Know your target audience. Not intellectually, but intuitively. Think like them, empathize with them, identify with them. Because at some level, the reader needs to like the writer. (via Mary Wear)

The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.

The beauty of a child is that she does not (yet) try to be someone she is not.