"30 minutes later you’re staring at a jumbled, incoherent mess that has as much chance of connecting with your readers as I do picking a fucking tuna sandwich from Subway (eugh)."

"I’ve literally got 1 hour every morning to write. That’s it. If I’m not getting the absolute MAXIMUM out of that time, it could be YEARS before I make this thing work."

"The person saying this might as well be wearing one of those big cardboard cutouts you see at Halloween parties, and, on it, in bright red paint is the phrase: 'I take everything I hear at 100% face value and am completely and utterly incapable of thinking for myself about whether there is a BETTER way to do things...'"

"Boom. I’m instantly hit with an analogy of how confusing it would be to try and piece together a Lego set without a manual. You’d be fumbling round blind in the dark. Which is EXACTLY what you probably feel like when you’re trying to come up with story ideas now, no?"

"IMO, the marketing world is full of so much crap and bullshit that if you can show even a shred of humanity in your copy, it’ll make you stand out a fucking mile."

"When you go on a first date with a girl, what do you wear? Do you wear the old, tattered jogging bottoms and T-Shirt you spend every day in? You know - the stuff that reflects the package she’s likely gonna end up with? Or do you, in fact, pick out your best garms, dress yourself to the nines and cover yourself in enough Paco Robane to have a passing asthmatic grasping for their pump?"