Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper … - William Goldman

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I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.

William Goldman

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

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