"Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit."

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Source : "Will Self's rules for writers" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

Will Self

#Real Quotes #Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.”
“Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.”
“Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.110, Portobello Books
“By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.”
“If you want peace, understand war.”
“I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.”
“In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.”

Source : John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing
“All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.”

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