The most helpful quality a writer can cultivate is self-confidence--arrogance, if you can manage it. You write to impose yourself on the world, and you have to believe in your own ability when the world shows no sign of agreeing with you.
Hilary Mantel, prize-winning English novelist and short story writer, 2002
Hilary Mantel, prize-winning English novelist and short story writer, 2002
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