“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”
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“Let me fall out of the window/
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“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
The Civilization of China https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2076/2076-h/2076-h.htm (1911), p. 37
