“Do not judge your worth based on another author’s popularity.”
“The inner voice that says ‘They’ll figure out I am a terrible writer,’ lives in all writers.”
“Write a novel a year for ten years and submit them everywhere; if at the end of ten years you aren’t selling – you might not be good enough.”
T.A. Henry 
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.” –W. C. Fields
10 novels and 10 years seems reasonable to me 🙂
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It took me more than ten years to get published the first time!
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