“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”
— Sarah Dessen, book This Lullaby
Variant: She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
Source: This Lullaby
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