Goodreads asked David Hodges:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

David Hodges My advice to aspiring writers is to stick at it. There is no such thing as failure. Novels are accepted or rejected largely on someone else's opinion; it doesn't necessarily mean when they are rejected that they are no good or, if they are accepted, that they are the best thing since sliced bread. Writing is largely a lottery. But though rejection is bruising - I have had it many times - you just have to pick yourself up and get on with it again. So, stickability, that's the most important thing and be ultra critical of your own work, so that you can learn from your mistakes.

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