Writing is a solitary ...

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
 Jessamyn West

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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
 Jessamyn West
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
 Jessamyn West
Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.
 Jessamyn West
I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.
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