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The art part of writing, the talent part of writing, is not something that you can learn.

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It's something you're born with or that you're raised through as part of your character.

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You can't learn to be a person who can be a writer.

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You can learn to write.

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Writing itself, particularly writing fiction, is a craft.

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Anybody can learn a craft, but you can't learn to be an artist if you're not one.

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So most people who have the stuff of being an artist find the discipline of learning

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the craft too long, too hard, and the constant rejection just too ego-destroying.

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So people who publish over a long period of time are people who are willing to have their

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egos trampled on constantly for years for various reasons.