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“And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.”

Looks Ends Half Written Cry Pages Awful The End Of The Day Hmm Experiencing Things

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?”

Writing Long Shows Problem Pages Empty Awful Shells Composition Find Me Here And Now Lonesome Empty Shell

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful.”

Should Writing Trying Firsts Wells Real Wanted Culture Struggle Pages Concern Awful Prose

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.”

Ifs Knows Heart Long Soul Ends Stories Turns Next Alive Pages Fingers Stores Awful Chapters Heart And Soul Fingers Crossed

Author:Darren Shan

“The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.”

May Virtue Pages Machines Awful Chairs Working It Ink

Author:Mark Twain

“You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!”

Knows Firsts Seems Lasts Stuff Issues Happened Pages Very Good Drawing Awful

Author:Declan Shalvey

“I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.”

Writing Trying Reading Attention Novel Right Now Pages Hundred Awful Admission

Author:Matthew Healy

“No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.”

Emotion Behinds Silence Pages Terror Awful Trapped Latent

Author:Maggie Stiefvater