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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. — John Wooden
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other's people's models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway
But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
