"A book is a dream you hold in your hands
If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something.
~ Neil Gaiman ~
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If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something.
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"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.
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"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
"Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
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"It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
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