“Hardest part about writing is just keeping your butt in the chair. Discipline and persistence. I recommend people do it every day. And you just have to just keep at it. Can’t wait for inspiration to strike. You have to do it long enough until you kind of...
“Discipline and commitment are essential to being a writer. You can’t be a writer unless you’re disciplined and you’re committed to the cause, which is like, write the script, write the book, write the sonnet, write the symphony. If...
“Create that community around you. And it doesn’t have to be someone who’s physically there. You can find critique partners and meet over Zoom. I think it’s so important to find that, that community and to help each other and to be good artist...
“The words that I was saying to myself, whenever I doubted, I would say, ‘Why not me?’ You go into these stores and you see all these New York Times bestsellers and you think, ‘Oh, I can never do that.’ And then I started saying,...
“Well, I’ve learned to absorb every kind of constructive criticism. I used to be quite resistant to it, but, I’ve learned to absorb constructive criticism and it’s a very important skill in life, I find. You know, don’t just throw...
