“ You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. ”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Categories: Writing
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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. 
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. 
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. 
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. 
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