I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.
If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.
What's required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found.
Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?
Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
Your day is your week is your month is your year.
We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. . .
I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.
Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.