What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson .
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NaNoWriMo – The final assessment
I’ve just spent the last two days reading through the 80,000 word novel I wrote in six-and-half weeks last year.[…]
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Quote: Julian Barnes
It’s easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren’t writers, and very little harm comes to them.[…]
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Writer’s block
Source: Doug Savage’s, Savage Chickens.
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Quotes: William Faulkner
If a writer has to rob his mother he will not hesitate – the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is[…]
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Quotes: Thomas Mann
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann .
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Rejection letters
Quotes: Edward Gibbon
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write[…]
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Writers at work: Haruki Murakami
INTERVIEWER How is your typical workday structured? MURAKAMI When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at[…]
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Quote: P D James
Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell. P D James
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