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“Don’t wait for the muse,” King writes in his memoir. “Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you are going to be every day from nine ’til noon or seven ’till three. If he knows,” King writes, “I assure you he’ll start showing up.
Brad Stulberg • Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
The movie producer and all-around mensch Stuart Cornfeld once told me that in a good screenplay, every structural unit needs to do two things: (1) be entertaining in its own right and (2) advance the story in a non-trivial way.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Marty has one other mantra: “Talent is bullshit.” “I seen a million writers with talent. It means nothing. You need guts, you need stick-to-it-iveness. It’s work, you gotta work, do the fucking work. That’s why you’re gonna make it, son. You work. No one can take that away from you. “And I’ll tell you something else,” Marty says to me now over the
... See moreSteven Pressfield • The Knowledge: A Too Close To True Novel
