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Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.