You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two. Michael Chabon
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Katherine Neville is the author of over thirty crime novels and is one of the most successful British writers in the genre. She has been nominated for five Edgar Awards, including Best Novel in 2000 and Best Paperback Original in 2010. In her interview with the Washington Post, she said that “All three of my books have been made into films. I didn’t get any of those before I was 30. So I would say that discipline is the most important thing, but if you have talent and luck, it might not be a bad idea to concentrate on luck first.”

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