There's a secret that real writers know and wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.—Steven Pressfield, The War of Art (2002)
What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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A friend just sent me this book. I have only read a few pages, but I can tell I'm going to enjoy it. I'll probably be quoting it a lot around here.
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One night I was layin' down,
I heard Papa talkin' to Mama,
I heard Papa say, to let that boy boogie-woogie.
'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.
-John Lee Hooker, "Boogie Chillen"
"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning."
ReplyDelete—Peter de Vries (widely paraphrased and misattributed to William Faulkner)
Ha, I like that. From now on I shall paraphrase it and attribute it to myself.
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