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I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.Lorrie Moore
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Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writerHimmilicious
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I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.Richard Curtis