“Writing is all about the preservation of your own voice.”

— Gary Ross

Dreams on Spec (2007)
Context: Writing is all about the preservation of your own voice. So if you give that voice away by guessing what you think and you think and you think as you go, you’ll have less to say and then it’ll go away completely!

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