One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going … - Lawrence Block

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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

Lawrence Block

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

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Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

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Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

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The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

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It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

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I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

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