'A writer’s ambition should be to trade 100 contemporary readers for 10 readers in 10 years’ time and for one in 100 years.’
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'Writing is not a job description. A great deal of it is luck. Don't do it if you are not a gambler because a lot of people devote many years of their life to it. I think people become writers because they are compulsive wordsmiths.'