Nietzsche says:

The worst sickness of men has originated in the way they has combated their sickness. What seemed a cure has is the long run produced something worse than what it was supposed to overcome. The means which worked immediately, anaesthetizing and intoxicating, so called consolations, were ignorantly supposed to be actual cures. Thefact was not noticed ... that these instantaneous alleviations oftern had to be paid for with a general and profound worsening of the complaint.

This is how hard one should try to write a novel:
The recipe for becoming a good novelist ... is easy to give, but to carry it outpresupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one says 'I do not have enough talent!' One has only to make a hundred or so sketches for novels, none longer thantwo pages but of such distinctness that every word in them is necessary; one should write down anecdotes every day until one has learnt how to give them the most pregnant and effective form; one should be tireless in collecting and describing human types and characters; one should above all relate things to others and listen to others relate, keeping one's eye and ears open for the effect produced on those present, oneshould travel likke a landscape painter or costume designer ... oneshould, finally, reflect on the motives of human actions, disdain no signpost for instructions about them and be a collector of those things by day and night. One should continue in this many-sided exercise for some ten years; what is then created in workshop ... will be fit to gout into the world.

'The Realistic Painter'
'Completely true to nature!' - what a lie
How could nature ever be constrained into a picture?
The smallest bit of nature is infinite!
And so he paints what he likes about it.
And what does he like? He likes what he can paint! (Nietzsche)

What in us really wants "truth"? ... We ask the value of this... Whjy not rather untruth? and uncertainty? even ignorance? ... The falseness of a judegment is not necessarily an objection to it ... The eustions is to what extent it is life-advancing; and our fundamental tendency is to assert that the false judegments .. are the msot indispensable to us ... that to renounce flase judgements would be to renounce life, I would be to deny life. (Nietzche)

First of all, one calls individual actions good or bad quite irrespective of their motives but soley on account of their useful or harmful consequences. Soon, however, one forgets the origin of these designations and beleves tht the quality good and evil is inherent in the actions themselves, irrespective of their consequences ... (Nietsche)