Don't romanticise your ‘vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no ‘writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page. (Zadie Smith)

Don't romanticise your ‘vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no ‘writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Zadie Smith

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