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• I drank a pint of whiskey and two six packs of beer each night while writing.
• I set a goal of ten pages a night but I never knew until the next day how many pages I had written.
• away. It took me twenty-one nights to write my first novel.
• Then she said in a lower voice, “You don’t understand. I’m going to be great. I have more potential than you have!” “Potential,” I said, “doesn’t mean a thing. You’ve got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.”