"You wake up fresh, with a full bar of willpower. This is the absolute perfect time to write. ... If you wake up and write, you know it got done. You also know you did your best writing."

"You decide you're a best-selling author, then your mind will subtly reinforce that. It will begin noticing the things that will help you achieve that goal, and it will keep doing so until your goal is a reality."

"Most of these people have stopped dreaming. They don't share your vision for an amazing future. Life has ground them down to be 'practical'. To get a day job and do what's expected of them. In short, people who can't see it for themselves can't see it in you."

"The first use for propinquity is removing all the little barriers that will keep you from writing. The more of these exist, the less likely you are to write. Many of them are simple, and some so tiny you may doubt that they'll keep you from writing. But they will."

"If you're at the stage where you only have one or two books out please take this to heart: It will get better, and it will become easier. All you have to do is keep writing, and keep learning."

"Future You is watching. Don't disappoint them. You know you are capable of more, so get your ass in that chair and do the work. Every day. You know you're capable of it, and Future You is already thanking you from your mansion on the beach."

"If you want to write every day without fail, then you need to convince your subconscious that you're the type of author who writes every day. It needs to be a standard, an unwavering commitment to follow through every day."