“ My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. ”
Source: Lord Jim
Categories: Writing
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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. 
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. 
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. 
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. 
