“A novel has roughly six stages of 'done.' 1: 'I know how it ends, but not how to do it.' 2: 'I know how to do it, but haven't written it.' 3: 'I wrote it, but it sucks.' 4: 'I wrote it again, but it needs work.' 5: 'I finished the work, but I'm still not happy.' 6: 'good enough'”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, no…”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com