You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away fr…

Frank Herbert
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You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing. ✨ Frank Herbert (1987). Heretics of Dune, p.9, Penguin
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