"Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.” Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
"I cannot live without books; but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object." - Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 10 June 1815 in Cappon, Adams-Jefferson Letters, 2:443. Polygraph copy at the Library of Congress.
"Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king." - Mark Van Doren
"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow." - Lawrence Clark Powell
We must risk a loss of passionate connection to distance ourselves from our work, to grow a little cold to it in order to revise,
in order to look at a poem [or a story] as a series of decisions.Why this and not that?
Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
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