The more you read, the less you imitate.
I've always been drawn to the unconventional.
You may have the worst of your worries when you most appear to be at ease.
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
I’m not playing for the records. I play tennis because I love it.