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Quotes on knuckling down

What writers & others say

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“I’d like to remind you again, Winfield, that daydreaming is only a part of the creative process.”

— Boss to employee in a New Yorker cartoon by Charles Barsotti

“Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of the chair.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winning author

“The cold, gray dawn of the morning after.”

— James Webb Young, a pre-Mad Men-era ad executive, in A Technique for Producing Ideas