When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, …

John Steinbeck
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When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.17, Penguin
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