"But more than that, you need the physical courage to look at a blank screen, and write. What you write will generally be pretty awful — especially when you are young. And for the most part, this does not change as you age. The writing in your head may well be the sweetest music. But when you put it on to the page what you will get will likely only be some vague, mushy approximation."
“One of my students insisted that whereas in math, you could practice and get better, in writing you either “had it” or you didn’t. I told her that writing was more like math then she suspected.”
Writing is an act of Courage: Notes From the First Year: Some Thoughts on Teaching at MIT
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