"I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern."

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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

— Harlan Coben