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Schools dont really allow failure and yet its a valid part of any

Schools dont really allow failure and yet its a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. – Roddy Doyle

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No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isnt yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. – Roddy Doyle

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Experience
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Roddy Doyle
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When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself – am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do. – Roddy Doyle

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teacher
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Failure? Scared to death of it. – Ryan Seacrest

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Failure is always an option. – Adam Savage

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Alexandre Dumas

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