A quote by Alan W. Watts

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

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Jack London

Seeing your ideas crumble can be a frustrating experience, but it is the point if you are writing to think. You want it to break. It is in the cracks the light shines in.

The primary task of a writer is to write well. (And to go on writing well. Neither to burn out nor to sell out.) ... Let the dedicated activist never overshadow the dedicated servant of literature — the matchless storyteller.

I think that if you are going to be a writer, what you’ve got to accept is that you have to create huge chunks of writing time when you don’t do anything else because the sad thing is, writing doesn’t really happen until it becomes obsessive, until it begins to take you over and nag at you. And I think you have to decide: am I prepared to pay that

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