“Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.”
Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker
“The instructor said, Go home and write
a page tonight.
And let that page come out of you —
Then, it will be true.”
"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
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