Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.

...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don’t want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don’t.
Write every day.
Keep writing.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.