I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of perseverance and the understanding that success can come later in life.
Jane Gardam reflects on her journey as a writer, emphasizing that starting a passion or career later in life does not equate to failure. She conveys a powerful message about resilience and the belief that creativity and success can flourish at any age, illustrating that itβs never too late to pursue oneβs dreams.
In practice
During a motivational speech on pursuing passions, one might say this quote to encourage older individuals.
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.
I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.
I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.
Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?
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