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Write what should not be forgotten.Isabel Allende
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘The cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat.’ And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.’Maya Angelou
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.Isaac Asimov
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.Enid Bagnold
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.Lawrence Block
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.Ray Bradbury
In the middle of writing something you go blank and your mind says: ‘No, that’s it.’ You’re being warned, aren’t you? Your subconscious is saying ‘I don’t like you anymore. You’re writing about things I don’t give a damn for.’ [The cure for writer’s block is to stop] whatever you’re writing and [do] something else. You picked the wrong subject.Ray Bradbury
You fail only if you stop writing.Ray Bradbury
If it doesn’t come roaring out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.Charles Bukowski
Writer’s block is the biggest myth out there. The idea that you’re just lost for any possible words isn’t some vague illness that strikes people when they’re trying to be creative. You’re not missing the words; you’re missing the research. All ideas are a combination of preexisting ideas. So if you’re “out” of new ideas it’s probably because you don’t have enough old ideas to combine. Go back and read more. Or spend more time mapping out the book. Don’t show up to the keyboard. Without a plan and then tell the world you have writer’s block. You’re lying to us and to yourself.David Burkus
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Write what should not be forgotten.Isabel Allende
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘The cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat.’ And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.’Maya Angelou
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.Isaac Asimov
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.Enid Bagnold
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.Lawrence Block
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.Ray Bradbury
In the middle of writing something you go blank and your mind says: ‘No, that’s it.’ You’re being warned, aren’t you? Your subconscious is saying ‘I don’t like you anymore. You’re writing about things I don’t give a damn for.’ [The cure for writer’s block is to stop] whatever you’re writing and [do] something else. You picked the wrong subject.Ray Bradbury
You fail only if you stop writing.Ray Bradbury
If it doesn’t come roaring out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.Charles Bukowski
Writer’s block is the biggest myth out there. The idea that you’re just lost for any possible words isn’t some vague illness that strikes people when they’re trying to be creative. You’re not missing the words; you’re missing the research. All ideas are a combination of preexisting ideas. So if you’re “out” of new ideas it’s probably because you don’t have enough old ideas to combine. Go back and read more. Or spend more time mapping out the book. Don’t show up to the keyboard. Without a plan and then tell the world you have writer’s block. You’re lying to us and to yourself.David Burkus
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