“Don’t let the terror of the white page
shrink-wrap your mind. The excuse that you have writer’s block is far
too easy. You have to show up for work. You have to sit in the chair and
fight the blankness. Don’t leave your desk. Don’t abandon the room.
Don’t check the sports pages. Don’t open the mail. Don’t distract
yourself in any way until you feel you have fought and tried.“A
writer is not someone who thinks obsessively about writing, or talks
about it, or plans it, or dissects it, or even reveres it: a writer is
the one who puts his arse in the chair when the last thing he wants to
do is have his arse in the chair.”
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