Here’s a presentation I put together on writing advice. Hope you like it.

Follows is a compilation of hiring quotes I put together from famous leaders and thinkers. However, some of the advice is odd…

Mark Twain is one of my favorite people whom my dad introduced to me. After a few heated arguments I angrily started to read Tom Sawyer. I hated my dad for being right. I loved it.

I write and design for a leadership and business blog and I also love Kurt Vonnegut. I married these facts together in the below presentation.

Kurt Vonnegut doesn’t have anything to say about organizational behavior and the differences between leadership and management, but his various philosophies can help business leaders all of us take a bigger, calmer, view of how we make decisions and get things done.

It’s always interesting to see how writers and artists can help us with the practical parts of our lives. They aren’t just there to talk about war, love, and sad marriages.

When I read about a great writer and his or her work habits I stretch my fingers out, loosen my neck, and poise my hands over the keyboard. I figure if their tricks work, they’ll have no choice but to work for me.

Sadly, the weird work habits of others, when applied to my schedule,  rarely help me get things done.

Just because Hemingway wrote standing up doesn’t mean you’ll be able to write a generation defining novel if you throw you desk chair out.

But the odd work habits of others make for great anecdotes…and maybe, just maybe, they can help you improve your daily routine.

Check them out:

Isaac Asimov was only 22 when he wrote Foundation–a sci-fi epic molded of  the scope of Edward Gibbon’s The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.

After I read the first chapter of Foundation I knew Asimov and I would be good friends.

The first pages of what would turn into Asimov’ s best know saga follow a scientist who curses like a grandma while he busily works on an Encyclopedia of all human knowledge.

How could a teenager refuse?

I figured we could learn something from him: