One thing I love about researching quotes to share with you every week is all the conflicting advice I find. Here’s some comfort for those among us who can’t seem to acquire the writing habit. Thing is, I imagine Fowles felt like writing quite often.
john fowles”All this advice from senior writers to establish a discipline–always to get down a thousand words a day whatever one's mood–I find an absurdly puritanical and impractical approach. Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you ought to write. — John Fowles (From The Novel Today, edited by Malcolm Bradbury)
Via MAD’s Monday Muse: Write When You Feel Like It.
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