"I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers' groups moonlight as support groups for people who think that writing is therapeutic.
The best, the only real training you can get is from reading other people's books."
"There's nothing more off-putting to a would-be novelist to hear (sic) about how so-and-so wakes up at four in the a.m, walks the dog, drinks three liters of black coffee and writes three thousand words a day..."
Thank you, Zadie Smith, for understanding.
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