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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
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For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing…
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The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will…
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I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.
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Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
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I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on…
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I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I…
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If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I…
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You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
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Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
— John Ruskin
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the…
— George Eliot
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You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from…
— Gautama Buddha
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The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
— Andrew Carnegie
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To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes…
— Steve Almond
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Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
— Zadie Smith
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In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
— Seth Godin
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The key is to do your own work.
— Kyle Bass
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As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would…
— Emmet Gowin
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What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra…
— Joan Didion
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