“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.