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You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will never write it at all, so there has to be one delicious moment when you have thought of something, know just how you are going to write it, rush for a pencil, and start buoyed up with exaltation. You then get into difficulties, don’t see your way out, and finally manage to accomplish more or less what you first meant to accomplish, though losing confidence all the time. Having finished it, you know it is absolutely rotten. A couple of months later, you wonder if it may not be all right after all. ↗
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. ~Dorothea Brande ↗
Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'. ↗
Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or cry. Worlds that allowed you to escape to another country or time. Worlds built piece by piece of ink and punctuation. ↗
Why would I ever write a book that made one person feel free when I can write something that will help thousands be free? ↗
I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work. ↗
My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence. ↗
