"Read widely and slowly. Write about the things that keep you awake at night. Try not to think about 'the market' at all, and if you really have to think about it, do so only when you're done with a full draft of your manuscript. There will be days, weeks, months in which everything you write seems flat and uninteresting. Keep going."
"Let go of everything when you write, and try at a simple beginning with simple words to express what you have inside. It won't begin smoothly. Allow yourself to be awkward. You are stripping yourself. You are exposing your life, not how your ego would like to see you represented but how you are as a human being. And it is because of this that I think writing is religious. It splits you open and softens your heart toward the homely world."
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