“As the tennis player rallies before
the game begins, so must the writer. And as the tennis player is not
concerned with where those first balls are going, neither must the
writer be concerned with the first paragraph or two. All you're doing
is warming up; the rhythm will come. The first moments are critical.
You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies,
or you can start writing something,
perhaps something silly. It simply doesn't matter what you
write; it only matters that you
write. In five or ten minutes the imagination will heat, the
tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.”
--Leonard S. Bernstein
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