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“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”
“Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mi...”
“When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and Ill have a book.”
“...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.”
“Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.”
“Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous...”
“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.”
“Dont waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.”
“Luck? I dont know anything about luck. Ive never banked on it and Im afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isnt." Lucille Ball”
“(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.”
“I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix someth...”
“File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.”
“Shut up and write.”
“My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.”
“When your position is one of peace, then you're truly powerful.”
“The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.”
“I have come to the conclusion that there are three aspects of life that can give our existence the joy, purpose and meaning that we may seek.1) To find a work that gives us such pleasure that it do...”
“I believe the first draft of a book even a long one should take no more than three monthsAny longer and for me, at least the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from th...”
“In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, re-ordering them, weighing one against another. Plea...”
“It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engi...”
