Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline eq…

Jeanette Winterson
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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. ✨ Ten rules for writing fiction (part two) by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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