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. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have...
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J.k. Rowling
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
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Jonathan Franzen
Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.
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Shaun Hick
Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The great writers have to fight...
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Alessandra Torre
Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.
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T.N. Suarez
More Quotes By Bonnie Friedman
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry, meager, so flawed it is barely anything. Or, if it is good, I am no longer the person who could write...
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.
Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.
