Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 65
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
From a letter published in The Merry Heart : Reflections on Reading Writing, and the World of Books (1996).
Context: To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.
“Don't get it right, get it written.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
“Don't get it right, just get it written.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing", The New Yorker (29 April 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). The moral is ironic with respect to the fable, in which sheep do insufficient research before writing about wolves, resulting in the sheep being easy prey.
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
Variant: Don't get it right, just get it written.
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)