Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

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I have seen many people in my life who knew how to write at a young age, but they never stuck with it. They went on to do other things instead. When they hit their stride in their twenties, they started doing what they were meant to do. It was too late. They had wasted so much time trying to get there that they ended up doing nothing at all.

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