A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
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| — | Richard Bach (via cupcakestains) |
PULP: ‘Office Tramp’ - Confessions of an executive sweet - Her job was to keep the bosses happy and it wasn’t by taking dictation
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
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| — | - John Steinbeck (via garnetiers) |
I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood.
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| — | Norman Mailer (via theparisreview) |
