“When I sit down to write I know that most of what I produce will end up being discarded, and to write in spite of that knowledge takes more confidence than I possess on a regular daily basis.”
“It’s harder to procrastinate when other people are watching.”
“Writing is like surgery or flying a plane: you need to be firing on all cylinders or you need to be doing something else.”
“I don’t think I would keep writing without being driven by a constant nagging voice at the back of my head, saying, over and over, “That’s not good enough, write more, write better, time is running out”.”
“It’s not about you. Readers don’t want an insight into your mind, they want an insight into their own, a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn’t even know existed.”
“Read your work out loud, preferably to other people. Things that work or don’t work are sometimes invisible on paper but obvious when heard.”
“All half-decent writers have a nagging voice in their head telling them which bits work and which don’t. Maybe you can’t hear it yet, maybe you don’t want to hear it… Cultivate this voice and learn to trust it.”
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