The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

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Aspiring writers often tell themselves, “I want to write… but I don’t have a book deal or a publisher.” It’s a good question, and one that I’ve asked myself a million times. The truth is, you can’t help it if you want to be a writer. The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can’t help it.

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1. The purpose of life is not to be happy–but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

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