“Learn to live on air… Avoid all messy and needy people including family; they threaten your work… Once you’ve truly begun, slow down. The difference between publishing two good books and forty mediocre books is terribly large.”

Sarah Manguso’s advice to young writers on how to have a career, in Work in Progress
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