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“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.”
― Jack Bickham

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.”
― William Archer

“Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a
mistake.”
― John Cleese

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Things every person should have:

•A nemesis.
•An evil twin.
•A secret headquarters.
•An escape hatch.
•A partner in crime.
•A secret identity.”
― Wil Wheaton

“Wil Wheaton Says: Don't be a dick.”
― Wil Wheaton

“Make what's missing.

If you are watching a movie and griping, 'why didn't they do this?'. Well, it sounds like you have some writing to do.”
― Lin Manuel Miranda

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock