Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. - Austin Kleon

"You're never "keeping it real" with your lack of punctuation and proofreading, you're keeping it unintelligible."

Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in
being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read
bibliographies. It’s not the book you start with, it’s the book
that book leads you to.

If you want followers, be someone worth following. Barry Hannah said to one of his students, “Have you tried making yourself a more interesting person?” This seems like a really mean thing to say, unless you think of the word interesting the way writer Lawrence Weschler does: For him, to be “interest-ing” is to be curious and attentive, and to practice “the continual projection of interest.” To put it more simply: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested.