A great novel is one that makes us see the world with new eyes.
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.
在寡头政治中的国王的暴政对公共福祉的威胁不如在民主国家中公民的冷漠。
I don't want to be a star, I want to be a legend.