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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
Jerry Pournelle
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln 
78% of people like this quote
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
68% of people like this quote
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu
57% of people like this quote
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
Jerry Pournelle
55% of people like this quote
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
55% of people like this quote
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.
Diane Johnson
51% of people like this quote
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