(T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college... Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.

Jincy Willett
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I’ve been reading a lot lately about success and thinking about how to achieve it. When I read the above quote, I thought of all of the people who are not currently successful that will be reading this. It’s taken me some time to realize that the only way to be successful is to keep trying, keep trying, keep trying. Only by failing can you learn what to do, and only by doing it again will you get better at it. The risk is real, but so is the reward.

Source: The Writing Class

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