In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. Mary Garden Read Quote
I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready. Mary Garden Read Quote
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I’d give up after a few minutes. I’d find other things to do: Anything but writing. Mary Garden Read Quote
I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly. Mary Garden Read Quote
For a long period in my life – it lasted about 10 years – I had writer’s block. Mary Garden Read Quote
It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life. Mary Garden Read Quote
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer’s block, as if it was some kind of illness. Mary Garden Read Quote
Reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. Mary Garden Read Quote
If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don’t want to write, do something else. It’s as simple as that. Mary Garden Read Quote
