Gabriel Fielding famous quotes

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.
-- Gabriel Fielding

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My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
-- Gabriel Fielding

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Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
-- Gabriel Fielding

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Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.