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How Do You Motivate Yourself To Write?
The future depends on what we do in the present – Mahatma Gandhi. I keep this quotation next to my computer. If I am ever feeling in the slightest way ‘unenthusiastic’ about knuckling down and doing the doings – i.e. … Continue reading
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For Beginners to Remember…
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you … Continue reading
This Is The Ideal Life
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain.
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The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History
30. Gustave Flaubert on George Sand “A great cow full of ink.” 29. Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman “…like a large shaggy dog just unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.” 28. Friedrich … Continue reading
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Tagged D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Harry Potter, Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Martin Amis, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, walt whitman
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“the person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” old cineese proverb.
Vaclav Havel, 1936 – 2011 (via doubledaybooks)
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Parenthood
Parenthood – 95% pure pain and 5% pure joy and the 5% far, far outweighs the 95%.
