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Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.

— Peter Shaffer

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

— Feist

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

— Robert South

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

— Jim Harrison

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

— James Stephens

If you rest, you rust.

— Helen Hayes

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

— Susan Wiggs

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

— Lily Rabe

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

— Antony Sher

✗Opposing Perspectives

Step on the moist, pillowsoft earth, walking gingerly aside a weeping steam that calls your name, for it knows how to heal a wounded heart.

— Maximillian Degenerez