"I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious."

-- James Thayer

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Four Quotes

“The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered and inviting one that from time to time I'm sure even the greatest have to pull themselves up short by the Shift key to remind themselves that it is story first that they should write.”
“Guitar players never listen to lead singers.”
“Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.”
“I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.”
“We are who we are, beÂcause of those we choose to love and beÂcause of those who love us.”
“The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.”
“The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.”
“If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.”

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