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“Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.”

Writing Done Existence Novel Written Ass Chairs

Book:Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months

Source: Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months

“You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.”

Writing Voice Existence Lonely Sticks Depressing What You Love

Author:Chris Terrio

“The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.”

Men Writing Country Whole Feelings Order Literature Existence Generations Tradition Historical Bones Simultaneous Individual Talent

Book:The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

“The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.”

Writing Women Existence Telling The Truth

Author:Azar Nafisi