# How I write my novels

Author: Duchess, 1855?-1897

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27621

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=How+I+write+my+novels+Duchess%2C+1855%3F-1897&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

To sit down in cold blood and deliberately set to cudgel one's brains with a view to dragging from them a plot wherewith to make a book is (I have been told) the habit of some writers, and those of no small reputation. Happy people! What powers of concentration must be theirs! What a belief in themselves--that most desirable of all beliefs, that sweet propeller toward the temple of fame. Have faith in yourself, and all me, will have faith in you.

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-i-write-my-novels-27621/chapters/1/index.md)