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First of all, disabuse yourself of the idea that you can make a career out of novel writing. 95% of all writers cannot make a living from writing. Of the remainder, at least half are writing som…   Top stories for {NAME} [Quora](   [I like to write novels and I want to become a writer in the future. But, there are always times when my mind goes blank and could not write anything which I began to doubt myself. Am I suitable for this career?]( Mercedes R. Lackey • [Answered May 18, 2019]( [First of all, disabuse yourself of the idea that you can make a career out of novel writing. 95% of all writers cannot make a living from writing. Of the remainder, at leas... Read more » [Upvote] 479 [Comment] 14](   [Who lives in John Lennon's apartment now?]( Sam Steiger, Music Journalist (2016-present) • [Updated April 12]( [I believe that the seventh floor apartment of The Dakota building that John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved into in 1973 is still inhabited by Yoko, along with the couple’s son S... 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Read more » [Upvote] 10.2K [Comment] 277](   [Why does the big tech want to replace programmers by AI so badly?]( Håkon Hapnes Strand, CTO and Machine Learning Engineer • [Answered April 9]( [The incentives are obvious. Software developers are expensive, hard to recruit, hard to retain, hard to manage and frequently not very good at their job. Because their job i... Read more » [Upvote] 189 [Comment] 35](   [What is the worst idea for an album ever?]( J. Danniel, BA Film Theory & Music History, Purdue University • [Answered February 6]( [(phone ringing) Tom Scholz: Hello? Record Company: Hi Tom, we heard you just completed your first new album in about eight years or so. Tom Scholz: Yep.... Read more » [Upvote] 298 [Comment] 82](   [If you fell from a plane at 35000 feet would you freeze or suffocate first?]( Joe Shelton, USPA Class D / BPA Class C, Instructor, Jumpmaster • [Updated April 18, 2019]( [If you fell from a plane at 35000 feet would you freeze or suffocate first? Considering the qualifier, “Fell from,” let’s presume the fall was accidentally initiated so you ... Read more » [Upvote] 1.9K [Comment] 60](   [Why are kids wearing diapers while travelling?]( Dr. Game, German, State-approved Nanny, Pedagogue in Study • [Answered April 22]( [I was wearing diapers when sleeping till age 9. While travelling I was put into diapers because of two reasons. First, I could have fallen to sleep, like I had done it a lot... Read more » [Upvote] 21](   [In the guitar solo on Led Zeppelin’s Heartbreaker, it sounds as Page fumbles. Does he, and if so, is this "intentional"?]( Tim Druck, Zeppelin bootleg expert, extensively quoted in Break & Enter • [Answered October 3, 2022]( [I’m listening to the song as I write this and I just think the whole thing is misunderstood as hell, like a ton of Zeppelin music. Wait, what? The third most listened-to ban... Read more » [Upvote] 635 [Comment] 54](   [Who was the employee from Pixar who almost deleted Toy Story 2? Were they fired?]( Steve Upstill, worked at Pixar • [Updated January 16, 2020]( [I was on the crew of Toy Story 2, and I well remember the Monday morning when we got the news. The identity of the culprit was and is a closely held secret, but I can tell ... Read more » [Upvote] 11.5K [Comment] 163](   [Why is Ulysses considered a great novel?]( Alex Johnston, Been reading James Joyce since childhood • [Answered January 28]( [Various people have considered Ulysses to be a great novel for various reasons. T.S. Eliot thought it was a great novel because he believed that Joyce’s technique of suggest... Read more » [Upvote] 255 [Comment] 31](   [Why was Yoko Ono not invited to the George Harrison memorial service?]( Michael Ruel, Was in early teens when British Invasion hit and got hooked • [Answered March 29]( [George couldn’t stand her when he was alive. He refused to let her appear at the Concert For Bangladesh. His wife certainly knew that George would certainly not have wanted... 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