The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
– Helen Keller –
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Never argue . . .
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to
their level and then beat you with experience.
Mark Twain.
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The concentration of the elite athlete…
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps
to the concentration of the writer. Julia Leigh
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Whatever you are . . .
Finish what you’re writing.
Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
- Neil Gaiman
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Whatever I have tried to do in life . . .
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well, whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens.
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If you do not breathe through writing…
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write. Because our culture has no use for it.
-Anais Nin
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Description begins in . . .
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Stephen King
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There is nothing to writing.
There is nothing to writing.
All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway.
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Writing Days
Be ruthless about protecting writing days. 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 to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.
AM Simpson 