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Can you share any precepts/maxims that help you be the person you'd like to be?

Daniel Quinn This statement from André Gide has been the guiding maxim of my adult life: "What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it, written as well as you, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself--and thus make yourself indispensable."

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I have embarked on a mission this year to read at least three books a month. From January-April, I will be reading 14 of your books...some for the second time, but most of them will be my first time around. I am so excited! I am about 90 pages into "The Holy," and it's utterly fascinating. Aside from reading as much as one can, what other snippet of advice can you give aspiring writers to focus on while writing?

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