"Another good thing that happens [when you allow yourself to stop writing in the middle and pick up..."

“Another good thing that happens [when you allow yourself to stop writing in the middle and pick up the next day] is that the next day you’re another person… and so you may have come up against a brick wall the day before but the next day you go there and you look at that and you go, no, no, no, I want to go this direction. And you start taking in it a slightly different direction than you thought you were going. And that frees you up quite often and gets you into a new territory… You’ve had experiences, you’ve had dreams, you’ve had idle thoughts, you know. So that’s what I meant by being a new person. You look at the fifteen lines you wrote the day before and you have a different idea. Whereas when you quit the day before you thought you were out of ideas.”

- James Tate
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