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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#behaved #dance #each #hand #how

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#been #clear #communicating #easy #fact

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#easier #friendship #kept #like #made

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bored #death #die #i #my own

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#health #his #lose #man #money

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#himself #man #manner #temper #tone

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#life #living #man #question #worth

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#cannot #continually #ere #find #how

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#get #into #keep #main #mine