Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
“Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.”
“It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.”