My advice to a young writer: Never give up. Read everything you can read - particularly the writers who move you deeply. Study how they do what they do. Read and read and read ... and write and write and write. (Erica Jong)

My advice to a young writer: Never give up. Read everything you can read - particularly the writers who move you deeply. Study how they do what they do. Read and read and read ... and write and write and write.

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