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Goodreads asked Tadzio Koelb:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Tadzio Koelb Nothing guarantees failure like surrender. While a life spent striving may never produce the results you hope for, resignation can have only one outcome.

That doesn't mean you should never give up, but you should be aware as you contemplate them of what your options really are; if we are being pessimistic we can call them the possible failure of trying versus the certain failure of doing nothing. Optimistically, they are the potential to succeed on the one hand, and a complete bar to success on the other.

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