According to Ohio State University English Professor, Lee K. Abbott, "You'll need to write as much junk as you are tall before you'll ever produce something that somebody will want to read twice."
I'm 5'6" and shrinking. I've probably written twice my height in junk so perhaps my day is coming.
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