Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.
Haruki Murakami
perfect and timely. thank you
Reminds me so much of T E Lawrence “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
Same sentiment … but more apt for the times we live in. 🙂
That needs to go on a cup 🙂
Unfortunately, many nonwriters have the impression that writing isn’t work, that we simply sit at the computer and priceless prose flows while we watch, sort of like viewing Netflix. As someone who’s struggled for decades to learn my craft and still struggles with the challenges of each book, I wish it were as easy as this implies. Far from it.
The less they understand how things are done the easier they think those things must be.
Was a good way of telling if a boss had moved up the ranks or had the position handed to them.
Jacqueline Diamond, Don’t recall where I read this: A writer, when he’s staring out the window, is working.
“Most people dream”
Good writers can make others dream …