"If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Effort Quotes

“I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.”
“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, andâ€”if youâ€™re not carefulâ€”those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”

Source : Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.84, Macmillan
“Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.”

Source : David Duchovny (2015). “Holy Cow: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan
“The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.”
“The thing with me is I'd rather have my cult following than just have a huge song. I haven't had one album or one official single release, but I probably got 500 songs out in people's collection.”
“Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.”
“The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.”
“TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.”

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