Chris Pavone
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career — neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
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Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them...Be a warrior when it comes to delivering...Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences...The usual complaint is, I have no other way...Simplicity in character, in manners, in style...At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie...