“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
– J.r r. Tolkien
Be wise with your free time – use it to write.
Tag / quotes
You can count on bad reviews…
“I’ve never had a movie that got great reviews. I’ve had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.”
Wes Anderson
Orwell on writing a book…
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
—George Orwell
Words from Dr. Seuss
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try” – Dr. Seuss
Drop the fear…
The best skill
“Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured” – Edward De Bono
The most important human resource of all.
“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”
– Sir Edward De Bono.
Carroll in CreativeLand
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Lewis Carroll, ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Mistakes = experience
“The mariner to sail with is he who has been shipwrecked, for he knows where the reefs are” – Daniel Defoe
So, either learn from your experiences or take advice from those who have.
We can’t all be Hemingway
“Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn’t. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still… you look at all this stuff with a grain ” – Mickey Spillane, author of lots of pulp detective stories.
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