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.

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."

如果你想读的书还没有被写出来，那么你必须自己写出来。

The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.

"A writer's greatest challenge is not to find the right words, but to find the truth within those words."