Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.

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""It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.""

- William Faulkner

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"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

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"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

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"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the Earth."

- William Faulkner

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"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief."

- William Faulkner

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"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

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"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."

- Vince Gironda

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"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

- Vincent van Gogh

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