![The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-best-writing-advice-i-had-was-in-heinleins-rules-for-writers-by-america.jpg)
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