A hard question? Complicated maybe? For me it was 'read', mom repeated it often. I'll leave other comments on topic until I see replies. Long or short or even confusing, let us know.
Note: This was prompted by the TLS, a magazine I subscribed to long ago in paper format, now on the web. A few replies below.
"What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
‘Never put anything in writing’ (from my dad)" Geoff Dyer
"Those things you really want to silence are precisely those you should interrogate." Yuri Herrera
“Never underestimate the other person’s insecurity”. Adam Gopnik
"In life: Be kind." Anna Burns
"When I crossed over from academic to popular writing, a university press editor advised me not to make the common professor’s mistake of talking down to readers, as if they were semi-literate chicken pluckers. Think of them, she said, as if they are as smart as you are, but happen not to know something that you know." Steven Pinker
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/article-se...nty-questions/
'To what extent, in your view, is writing a political act? It’s dangerously anti-human to claim that everything is political. Writers and thinkers take on twenty questions from the TLS, revealing their favourite books, writing habits and best advice'