Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
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Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
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I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
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Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.
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