At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. — David Sedaris. American humorist and author (born 1956)
I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.