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“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.”

Writing Mean Forget Pulling Consumed Forget You

Author:Paullina Simons

“If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.”

Ifs Writing Book Might Romance Culture Names Forget Lucky Paper Pops Lists Ignorant Spells Topics Lit Fascination Pop Culture Chicks New Yorkers

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but I always forget them in the morning so I’ll leave a pad on my bedside table so I can write it down, and then you have some incredible dream and you write it down and the next morning you wake up and you’ve written ‘purple socks’.”

Writing Wells I Can Dream Next Forget Careers Morning Written Wake Up Down And Tables Incredibles Nonsense Usual Purple Sock Pads

Author:George R. R. Martin

“If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.”

Writing Forget Lonely

Author:Jack Driscoll

“The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.”

Writing Ideas Forget Satisfaction Psychics Forget It Bad Ideas

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.”

Writing Happens Forget

Author:Josh Lieb

“This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.”

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Author:Jonis Agee

“Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?”

Writing Song Stars Forget Rocks Stage Okay Get Up Prophet Forget It Rock Star

Author:Pamela Anderson

“To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?”

Writing Long Has Beens Book Sometimes Play Film Used Forget Generations Television Drama Raised Scripts Forget It Live Television

Book:Hopes and impediments: selected essays

Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays