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• From where I sit, battles are hard. I’ve written my share. Sometimes I employ the private’s viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That’s vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general’s point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Views, Giving

  Interview with Bernard Cornwell, www.bernardcornwell.net.

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• Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

  David Eddings

  Hard Work, Writing, Apprenticeship

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• Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

  Stephen Leacock

  Writing, Paper, Down And

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• If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Hard Work, Writing, Stories

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• Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

  Patrick Dennis

  Writing, Digging, Harder

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• If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

  Steven Galloway

  Writing, Would Be, Possibility

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• When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Morning, Book

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• When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

  Sean O'Casey

  Hard Work, Writing, Kind

  Sean O'Casey (1954). “Selected Plays of Sean O'Casey”, George Braziller

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• Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.

  Richard North Patterson

  Book, Writing, Simple

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• Hard writing makes easy reading.

  Wallace Stegner

  Reading, Writing, Easy

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.158, Modern Library

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• What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

  Neal Stephenson

  Writing, Fiction, Hacking

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• Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Mind, Mechanic

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• The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.

  Robert Lucas, Jr.

  Thinking, Economics, Economist

  "On the Mechanics of Economic Development". Journal of Monetary Economics, 22, 1988.

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• It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Brain, Economics

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else

  Robert Lucas, Jr.

  Thinking, Welfare, Economics

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• Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Spiritual, Money, Selfish

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep unsound financial institutions operating simply because they provide jobs.

  Paul Krugman

  Strong, Jobs, Philosophy

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• A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

  Robert De Niro

  Success, Ideas, Choices

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• When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

  Tim Ferriss

  Success, Marketing, Trying

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• Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Success, Math, Two

  "Mathematical Circles Squared". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1972.

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• Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

  Marlon Wayans

  Success, Dream, Hard Work

  "Marlon Wayans "A Haunted House" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

  Florence King

  Women, Egalitarianism, America

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.97, Macmillan

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• No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in this nation on Tuesday morning. September 11 will go down in our history as a day to remember.

  Billy Graham

  Morning, Tuesday, Day To Remember

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

  Jim Butcher

  Hero, Tyrants, Choices

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