"We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we’re so worried about what people will think of us. Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start to be free, because we decide that we don’t give a damn what anyone thinks of us. But you won’t be completely free until you reach your sixties and seventies, when you finally realize this liberating truth—nobody was ever thinking about you, anyhow." - P174
Create whatever you want to create—and let it be stupendously imperfect, because it’s exceedingly likely that nobody will even notice. And that’s awesome. - P175
"Done is better than good." - P176
General George Patton’s: "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - P176
Or, to paraphrase: A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. - P176
You may want your work to be perfect, in other words; I just want mine to be finished. - P177
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