The only way to keep improving is to keep pushing yourself.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then.
A quarry manager needs the precision of an engineer and the vision of a poet.
"A story can change the world, one reader at a time."
杰夫·贝索斯接受了莱克斯·弗里德曼的播客采访
每当有人逝去,总有少数的人们会想到:许多事情被忽略了,许多事情还未来得及去做;多少事情给遗忘了,而更多事情已无法弥救——足可见,平素对待周围的人们需用心才是;没有什么是比追悔莫及更令人懊丧的了;请让我们趁早记住这个理吧,以免受那样的痛苦。