"You should not write a book in order to get rich. That won’t happen. You should not write a book in order to get famous. That won’t happen, either, unless you are somehow drafted into the NBA while you are writing."
Envy, ego, pride and pain: what I learned from publishing my first book | Hamilton Nolan
Years torturing yourself before a blank page are followed by months of scrambling for publicity, followed by oblivion
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