Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

If it needed emphasis, underline and exclamation point, Katrina did that,

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.