"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."
"I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation."
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Source: Philip Roth (1989). “The facts: a novelist's autobiography”, Vintage
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