"The recipe for becoming a good novelist...is easy to give, but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one says 'I don't have enough talent.'
One has only to make a hundred or so sketches for novels, none longer than two pages but of such distinctness that every word in them is necessary; one should write down anecdotes every day until one has learned how to give them the most pregnant and effective form; one should be tireless in collecting and describing human types and characters; one should above all relate things to others and listen to others relate, keeping one's eyes and ears open for the effect produced on those present, one should travel like a landscape painter or costume designer...one should, finally, reflect on the motives of human actions, disdain no signpost for instruction about them and be a collector of these things by day and night.
One should continue in this many-sided exercise for some ten years; what is then created in the workshop....will be fit to go out into the world." (Nietzsche)
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