Goodreads asked Marie Phillips:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Marie Phillips Writing is writing and everything else about being a writer is noise. Enjoy the day to day experience of writing and try to forget about everything connected to publication, the book scene, other people's expectations, and so on. None of that matters. Even if you eventually publish a book to huge acclaim, in the end you will just be sitting down to write again, exactly as before. The noise can overwhelm you. Just write.

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