"Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends."

-- Gary Shteyngart

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“I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
“Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.”
“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.39, Full Moon Publications
“Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.”
“The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.260, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
“a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.”
“It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions, both of men and things, that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul, and plant it so immovable within it, that Euclid's demonstrations, could they be brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it!”
“Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”

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