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On Rejection and Persistence: What If There Was No Dr. Seuss?
And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.) KID, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS! Oh, the Places You’ll Go! was published just a year before Seuss’ death and captures his...
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Why You Shouldn’t Give a Damn About Bad Reviews
Is there a sweeter tonic for the doldrums than old reviews of great novels? In nineteenth-century Russia, Anna Karenina was received with the following: “Vronsky’s passion for his horse runs parallel...
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Rowling on Failure and Perspective
The man who gets up is greater than the man who never fell. – Concepcion Arenal Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you’re failing...
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On Death, Writing, Failure and Truth
The writer Leo Buscaglia said: Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey into the...
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