Writing is hard, but the hardest part of writing is actually the easiest: sitting down to do it.
“We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” --Aristotle
Do less, write more.
Festina lente.
A cluttered desk reflects a cluttered mind.
Festina lente.
Don't expect to get any work done on a blank page in an open space.
It takes hours, not weeks or months, to write. A paper, a book, or a dissertation: it makes no difference; hours, not weeks or months. Those who don't understand this ultimately take years.
Be brilliant.
Do not write so that you can be understood, but so that you cannot be misunderstood
--Epictetus
Fortune favors the prepared mind. --Louis Pasteur
To know whom to write for is to know how to write.
---Virginia Woolf
"La ciencia desdeña el poseedor avariento."
[Knowledge disdains the miserly owner."]
--Alonso de Cartagena
Don't fake out your reader: unlike the running back, the academic writer wants to be tackled.
