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C’est pourtant simple : Votre tête, vos idées. Votre bouche, vos mots. Votre plume, votre style. Cessez de citer, devenez citable.
Victor Ferry • 12 leçons de rhétorique pour prendre pouvoir: Mettez vos idées en discours et votre public en mouvement (French Edition)
Maria Popova • Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good. It has stretched your understanding. I know that. Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.
Brenda Ueland • If You Want to Write
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back — concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never oth
... See morein her 1938 classic, If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland declares aimless attention essential to good work and deep thought: So you see the imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering. These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas… bu
... See moreLyanda Lynn Haupt • Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
Teaching people doesn’t subtract value from what you do, it actually adds to it. When you teach someone how to do your work, you are, in effect, generating more interest in your work. People feel closer to your work because you’re letting them in on what you know.
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
Dale Carnegie • How To Win Friends and Influence People
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”