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“There’s luck in art. And then there’s the gift. You can’t earn that. But you can learn skill, you can earn it. You can learn to deserve your gift.”
~ Ursula K. le Guin, Steering the Craft

“When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it’s good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You’re not likely ever to get all these things, and you’re not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don’t, but that is — and should be — your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.”
~ Dashiell Hammett

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
~ J.K. Rowling

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
~ Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“After many years, to start a story still scares me to death.”
~ John Steinbeck

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt