"Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. Until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job."

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Source : "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

Roddy Doyle

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“If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?”
“But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there. The trees had multiplied! They were moving. In one small corner of the world, Grandfather's dream was coming true and the trees were moving again.”

Source : Ruskin Bond (2002). “Rusty, the Boy from the Hills”, p.31, Penguin Books India
“I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.”
“I just called to say, 'I love you.”
“In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.”
“I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.”
“Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus.”
“My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.”

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