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I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The...more

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Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic...

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Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge y...more