Quoting Desmond Tutu in Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams, The Book of Joy, Avery, Ch. Nothing Beautiful Comes Without Some Suffering, p. 47, 2016

If you want to be a good writer, you are not going to become one by always going to the movies and eating bonbons. You have to sit down and write, which can be very frustrating, and yet without that you would not get that good result.

— Desmond Tutu in Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams, The Book of Joy, Avery, Ch. Nothing Beautiful Comes Without Some Suffering, p. 47, 2016

8:30am on January 20, 2025 from Vancouver, Canada.


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