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

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

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

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

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.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.