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"Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you..."

“Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in the edit.”

- Will Self

"And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook, and writing, and seeing where that..."

“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook, and writing, and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”

- J. K. Rowling

"Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get..."

“Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.”

- Max Perkins

"You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones..."

“You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.”

- Stephen King,On Writing

"When I’m starting a book, I compose in bed before I go to sleep. I will lie there in the dark and..."

“When I’m starting a book, I compose in bed before I go to sleep. I will lie there in the dark and think. I’ll try to write a paragraph. An opening paragraph. And over a period of weeks and months and even years, I’ll word and reword it until I’m happy with what I’ve got. If I can get that first paragraph right, I’ll know I can do the book.”

- Why Stephen King Spends ‘Months and Even Years’ Writing Opening Sentences

"One of the hazards of hanging around with writers is that they may write about you."

“One of the hazards of hanging around with writers is that they may write about you.”

- Tim Kreider, author of We Learn Nothing (via austinkleon)

Only REBLOGGING because I thought this was a giant pacifier.

Only REBLOGGING because I thought this was a giant pacifier.

"Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the..."

“Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don’t let go of my arm. And if I should kiss you in the dark, it’s no big deal; it’s only because you are my love.”

- Stephen King, Skeleton Crew.

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