I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.
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She kept encouraging me when I was young, and so I just accepted it this was what I was going to do I was going to write books, ... But she never said anything about money or success, so none of that was built into my expectations. Just writing and getting published was enough at first.Judith Rossner
I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.
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It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.
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