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“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.” Will Shetterly

Don’t try, It drives everything crazy. Just do. Charles Bukowski

Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the next day – that way, you can write three or five words without being ‘creative’ and before you know it, you’re writing. Cory Doctorow

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative ... Oscar Wilde

“Writers don’t have lifestyles. They sit in little rooms and write.” Norman Mailer

Life is too short to be normal. Stay weird. Anonymous

"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." Arthur C. Clarke

“The problem is that horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. Horror is not a kind of fiction. It's a progressive form of fiction that continually evolves to meet the fears and anxieties of its times.” Douglas E. Winter

To write a great book, you must first become the book. Naval Ravikant

Real is good, interesting is better Stanley Kubrick

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. John Banville

Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets….The space and quiet that idleness provides is a...

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.” Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal." Voltaire

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett