Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
Ray Bradbury
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Monday Motivational
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
Robert Frost
Monday Motivational
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have ‘essential’ and ‘long overdue’ meetings on those days.
J.K. Rowling
Monday Motivational
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E.L. Doctorow
Monday Motivational
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing–writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.
Lawrence Block
Monday Motivational
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy
Monday Motivational
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
Richard Bach
Monday Motivational
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
Orson Scott Card
Monday Motivational
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
Monday Motivational
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.
Beverly Cleary
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