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“We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.”

Writing Stuff Missions Desperate Compatible

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”

Ifs Needs Writing Sometimes Grows Bits Wonder Our Lives Heard Wake Up Make Sense Visible Desperate Endeavor

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.”

Want Writing Ends Fool Desperate

Author:Rian Johnson

“Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Writing Wells Long Real Hard Found Space Novel Novelists Things To Do Desperate Symptoms Discouraged Hard Things

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.”

Writing Imagine Pride Desperate Deadline

Book:Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

“Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.”

Feels Writing Novel Doors Please Desperate Knocking

Author:Samantha Shannon

“Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.”

Ifs World Writing Certain Study Historical Desperate Endurance Nevertheless Threatened Affirmation Continuity

Author:George F. Kennan