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You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

You fail only if you stop writing.

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

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.