"Writers should probably be solitary, but we can’t be confined. The mind spins on itself. It shrinks...."

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Writers should probably be solitary, but we can’t be confined. The mind spins on itself. It shrinks. People never ask me what the best movie about being a full-time writer is, and so I never get to say The Shining, but it’s true. Think about it. Go for a walk while you think. Don’t stop walking until you have reached your limits and recast them, have been somewhere new, have found—

And if it’s too far to walk, take a car.

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- Sarah Nicole Prickett in Hazlitt