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To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

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Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.

Believe, Believing, Ones, Successful, Writing

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

Finest, Grass, Like, Part, Unbanishable, Writing

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

Enough, Hard Work, Teach, Work, Writing

The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.

Appear, Book, Finite, Portrait, Real, Sacrifice

How we learn is what we learn.

Learn, Learning
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