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Learning to Write

11 November 2002

Most of these early efforts were pretty bad, but I learned a lot. Many of the students I teach find it hard to believe that a person might write three or four unpublishable novels before they write one that's anywhere near decent. That's probably because the idea of writing just one seems like a monumental task. But not if you love it.'

Bestselling crime writer Peter Robinson in the UK publishing magazine Publishing News