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“There is always, of course, that terrible three weeks, or a month which you have to get through when you are trying to get started on a book. There is no agony like it. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off….You forget every time what you felt before when it comes again: such misery and despair, such inability to do anything that will be in the least creative. And yet it seems that this particular phase of misery has got to be lived through.”
~Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)

“This book has become a misery to me because of my inadequacy.”

~John Steinbeck

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
~Pablo Picasso

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
~William Faulkner

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
~ Maxine Hong Kingston