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Robert Masello Quotes

If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But if you want to write something that may eventually see the light of day, that a magazine might buy or

If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But if you want to write something that may eventually see the light of day, that a magazine might buy or a publisher publish, then you'll have to knock off the journaling and do the grunt work that real writing requires.

Robert Masello
Real, Writing, Light
Robert Masello (2005). “Robert's Rules of Writing”, p.11, Writer's Digest Books

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

Robert Masello
Moving, Optimistic, Black

Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not, that you're doing something of value when you're just using up paper, that you're a writer when in fact you're just going through the motions of one. Look at me! I have blank paper in front of me-and now I'm filling it, with words!

Robert Masello
Writing, Games, Waiting
Robert Masello (2005). “Robert's Rules of Writing”, p.12, Writer's Digest Books

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