"The dead are not dead until they are forgotten."

晏子春秋

一支箫一把剑是我平生的志向，辜负了狂名十五年。

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to survive.

Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.