The Successful Novelist - First Day in Class

I'm currently reading The Successful Novelist by David Morrell and wanted to share any tidbits as I read it.

From the prologue, First Day in Class:

When he was seventeen, Morrell wrote to the writer of a TV show called Route 66 and told him that he wanted to be a writer just like him. The writer replied with the following advice:

• write, write, write and keep writing
• find other people who write and trade ideas with them
• critique one another's work
• send out your stuff, but don't get discouraged
• keep writing
• it's just that simple, and that terribly difficult

And Morrell's further advice includes:

• desire alone doesn't get you to be a published novelist.
• learn about writing by analyzing great novels
• discover how the experts achieved their effects
• the only reason to write a novel is that if it grabs you and doesn't let you go until you put it down on paper
• write a story you feel passionate about and write it well