Tweet of the Day
Alain de Botton
Tweet of the Day
Tweet of the Day
Good work tends to happen only at the end of day: when the fear of accomplishing nothing finally exceeds fear of doing it badly.
How to Start
“The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.”
Pessimism/optimism
Posters by Alain de Botton and Anthony Burrill (on sale here).
What “finished” means to a writer
“Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.”
The Wages of Worry
“It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.”
Tweet of the Day
The only mood in which to start writing is self-disgust. Writing becomes an act of atonement for procrastination — and “self-waste.”
— Alain de Botton, master Twitterer