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21 " Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend to them than inspiration "
― Paul J. Silvia , How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
22 " Writing books hurts like no other kind of writing. "
23 " Writing a book is like injecting anabolic steroids: it if doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger and hairier. "
24 " A professor's decks are never clear: there will always be barnacles to scrape, cannons to polish, and scurvy-stricken grad students to free from the brig. "
25 " Writing Well by William Zinsser "
― Paul J. Silvia , Write It Up! Practical Strategies for Writing and Publishing Journal Articles
26 " People who claim that they’re “not the scheduling kind of person” are masterly schedulers at other times: They always teach at the same time, go to bed at the same time, watch their favorite TV shows at the same time, and so on. "
27 " Binge writers are also binge readers and binge statisticians. "
28 " To write a lot, you should rethink your mental models of rejection and publication. Rejections are like a sales tax on publications: The more papers you publish, the more rejections you receive. "
29 " Collecting data is easy; writing about data is hard. "
30 " The subtlety of your analysis of variance will not move readers to tears, although the tediousness of it might. "
31 " Put your "inner writer" back on its leash and give it a chew toy. "