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21 " You have your dreams, you look round and everything’s broken, hearts, windows, walls, telephone boxes. Everything breaks and disappears. "
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22 " Success is a cloudy vision at the top of a steep hill and you have to make up your mind if you’ve got the energy and inclination to climb it. "
23 " Writing is a journey with no maps, no ending, no guides (except charlatans) and often no point. Still we do it. "
― , Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen
24 " No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is. "
25 " Writing is a virus once caught never to be cured. "
26 " Don't let baby slip too quickly from your fingers. Hang on tight until she's ready to go. And then hang on a little longer. "
27 " A teacher can’t teach you how to write. What a teacher can do is show a writer how not to write. "
28 " To use a sculptural metaphor, the great novel, essay, biography is imprisoned inside a block of marble and the writer must chip away with a tiny chisel until the exquisite appears "