9 August 2021
Celebrated American author Mark Twain was very dismissive of people who think it is possible for someone to learn how to write a novel.
"A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel," he said. "He has no clear idea of his story. In fact, he has no story."
British writer Stephen Fry puts it another way. He says that successful authors are those who know just how difficult it is to write a book.
