Only bad writers think they're good.
There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.
I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
I just like doing it, I like writing.
You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.
We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do with writing that isn't necessarily just writing saleable novels or getting huge advances.
Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it. ' But I think what people need is the sense of not being alone. They go to MFA programs to be part of a community of people who care, and then you start caring about your friend who is trying to edit a magazine and your other friend who is stuck in the middle of her poem. There you have all kinds of things to worry about besides your own success.
Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.
David Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and dramatically gripping.
You see in the photograph what you are.
Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.