#writing

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning... ↗

— Walter Mosley

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...kapag binisita ka ng idea, gana o inspirasyon, kailangan mong itigil LAHAT ng ginagawa mo para lang di masayang ang pagkakataon. Walang “sandali lang” o “teka muna”. Dahil pag lumagpas ang maikling panahong yon, kahit mag-umpog ka ng ulo sa pader mahihirapan ka nang maghabol. ↗

— Bob Ong

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It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

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As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it. ↗

— David Morrell

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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ↗

— Janet Frame

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I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me. ↗

— Norman Maclean

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You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own. ↗

— Hugh MacLeod

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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it. ↗

— Ngaio Marsh

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File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting. ↗

— Antony Johnston

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