Tom

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Getting the past wrong is almost as problematic as not getting the past into our minds at all.”
― John M. Frame, A History of Western Philosophy and Theology