Roger Ebert via Mark Bernstein:
Tags: practiceI would begin a story time and time again on an old Smith-Corona manual typewriter, ripping each Not Quite Great Lead from the machine and hurling it at the wastebasket. [Bill] Lyon watched this performance for a couple of weeks and gave me two of the most valuable pieces of writing advice I have ever received: (1) Once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going? (2) The Muse visits during creation, not before. Don’t want for inspiration, just plunge in.
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