“You have to think of your fears and doubts as your friends, because they’re useful.”
“Don’t worry to much about knowing what you’re doing at the beginning. You can start in the middle if you want! Just put the words down.”
“Stories will always find their own shape - they’re like water, they will fill whatever vacancy they’re given.”
“If you have trouble switching from your real world to your fictional one, try listening to the same piece of music, over and over again, until whatever surrounds you fades away.”
“Towards the end, it will be graft that gets you through. Know that you will redraft and rewrite your work thirty, forthy, fifty times. You will examine and agonize over every comma, every semi-colon, every adverb.”
“Every book teaches you something, at the same time as filling you with a desire to put this new knowledge into practice, to try again. It’s all part of the process.”
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