Siddhartha Mukherjee - I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day. The th...

Siddhartha Mukherjee Zitate

I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day. The thought froze me instantly, like literary Botox. I returned to my non-schedule: sleeping, writing 20 minutes, and then back to sleep. Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Ich habe mir einmal eine Frist gesetzt: ein halbes Kapitel pro Woche, 20 Minuten pro Tag. Der Gedanke erfror mich sofort wie literarisches Botox. Ich kehrte zu meinem Zeitplan zurück: schlafen, 20 Minuten schreiben und dann wieder einschlafen. Frühstück im Bett, mit Saft auf dem Fensterbrett. Die Seiten und Seiten fingen wieder an zu strömen.

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