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Quote card: Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

E. L. Doctorow, interview in The Paris Review (1986)

You don't need to see the whole career. Drive to the edge of the headlights, then the next bit lights up.

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