The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead
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Warren Adler
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook–a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
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Virginia Woolf
Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.
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Glen Hirshberg
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I’ll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.
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Troye Sivan
More Quotes By Sue Ward Drake
Be positive. Believe that you will succeed. See it, go for it. No matter what the odds, most of the battle is inside your own head. -- Bob Mayer
Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous
Don’t hold back and save stuff for the next book. Put everything you have into the one you’re writing, - Michael Connelly
You only fail if you stop writing. R A Y BRADBURY
Writing a full length novel is very much like driving a car with snakes in your pants–you just never know what’s going to happen. -- James Scott Bell