Cormac McCarthy Quotes About Writing
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Teaching writing is a hustle.
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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.
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I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
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I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.
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