Fight for Your Dreams
29th June 2016 | for Creatives | novel writing, writing, KEEP CREATING, protect the art, Lisa Scottoline, the creative life |
"You've got to go, 'No, I can't come into work on the weekends—[that's] when I work on my novel.' ... People deserve those dreams, and they have to fight for them. You don't want to be at the end of your life and go, 'I met all the obligations people had for me.'"
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