I had my coat hangers spayed.
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.
I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.
A salaried job trains us to be "right" all the time and induces an entitlement mentality. This is because we get paid the same amount no matter what work we are producing, and we begin to see this is fair and right, and we begin being trained to think we are right all the time. When we become salespeople and marketers, we have to leave all of that behind.
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.