Several short sentences about writing: Best Christmas present EVER

I've been dipping into this brilliant book every day of this new year - opening it at random places and absorbing its words of wisdom. The book can be read from beginning to end, but I've been delighting in picking it up halfway through, to find a sentence here, a paragraph there, and sometimes pages and pages of inspiring advice.

I loved this: 'For our purposes, genre is meaningless. It's a method of shelving books and awarding prizes.'

And: 'Where do sentences come from? How do they reveal themselves in your thinking? We like to think we move from thought to expression, with no more fuss than a handshake.'

And what I needed to hear right now: ' "Done" isn't absolute or arbitrary. Nor is it really about learning your limits as a writer. It's a compromise.'