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Why do writers write

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.