I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.