You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.


Getting Published: The Writer in the Combat Zone (ed. William Morrow, 1986)

Leonard Bernstein Quotes

You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten...

You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten...

You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten...

You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten...