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 Alexander Hamilton
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just...
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that’s being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won’t approve....
Magic! ' cried an old man. 'Tis sorcery, and we are undone! ' 'Not so, ' I told him, 'Sorcery cannot harm good Christians.' 'But I am a miserable sinner, ' he wailed.
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating.- Poul_ Anderson
