The lesson here is not to take Camus to the beach.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit."
Stephen King, On Writing

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.

(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash.

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