“The secret to editing your work is simple: You need to become its reader instead of its writer.”
"Writing is my way of expressing – and thereby eliminating – all the various ways we can be wrong-headed."
- Zadie Smith
Self-awareness
"Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories."
- Zadie Smith
Reflection
"Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy."
- Zadie Smith
Empathy
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity