"Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration."

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Source : Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Writer's Book of Hope: Getting from Frustration to Publication”, p.49, Macmillan

Ralph Keyes

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“I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.”
“All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.”
“So much of life is what you roll and where you land.”
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”
“My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned about yoga in California on a surfing trip, and when he came back to Houston, Texas, he introduced me to this new stuff he'd learned. I'll always be grateful for that positive influence at an early age.”
“I don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate change, reversing the growth of income inequality, and so forth. If we could accomplish all this in a couple of years, I'd be delighted. But we can't.”
“I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.”
“'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.”

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