If you obtain stuck, get apart away from your desk. consider a
walk, consider a bath, go to sleep, create a pie, draw, listen to ?music,
meditate, exercise; what ever you do, dont just stick there scowling at
the problem. But dont make phone calls or go to some party; if you
do, other peoples key phrases will pour in in which your lost key phrases should be.
Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.—Hillary Mantel
Tell the reality by method of whichever veil arrives to hand
– but inform it. Resign your do it yourself in the direction of lifelong sadness that arrives from
never ?being satisfied.—Zadie Smith
The nearest I need to some rule could possibly be considered a Post-it near to the wall in entrance of my cubical saying Faire et se taire (Flaubert), which I translate for myself as Shut up and get on with it.—Helen Simpson