100 quotes that helped me write

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"Craft is too grand and foreign a word to describe what gets done most days in your pajamas."

—Zadie Smith

100 quotes that helped me write

“I see no reason why I shouldn’t write about myself. I find the subject as interesting as Napoleon or Alexander the Great.”

—Richard Strauss

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“If there’s anything I know about practicing it’s that it isn’t about rules or consistency or scarcity or god forbid optimizing : it’s about coming back. A practice is built on the movement of return.”

—Mandy Brown

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“I’ve lived my whole life without having goals, and I think that’s very valuable, because then I never am in a state of anxiety or dissatisfaction. I never feel I haven’t achieved something. I never feel there is something yet to be accomplished. I feel like goals are quite counterproductive. They give you a target, and until the moment you reach t

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“I always think of style as something that’s the distance between what you want something to look like, and what your hand and brain make it look like unintentionally. And there’s quite a gap there, and there’s some interesting stuff in that gap.”

—Daniel Clowes

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the universe, which runs through himself and all things.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who does not doubt what they’re doing.”

—Francis Ford Coppola

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“You just got to put in the work. That’s all it is. If you watch enough Rocky movies – and there are six of them, three of them are really f—king good – anytime Rocky tried to take a shortcut in training, he got his ass whooped. And, you know, Rocky III , he’s in a nice gym and the girls are there kissing his muscles and all that bulls—t, and Mr. T

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“Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself...”

—Klee

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