Fifty Things I've Learned About The Literary Life
joseph harris <[email protected]>
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[Like him or loathe him, 50 things from McCrum are a handy checklist -
one or two listed below.]
Fifty Things I've Learned About The Literary Life
Posted at 1:15PM Monday 19 Dec 2011
There's no magic formula for success, and no one person knows best, but
for what it's worth . . .
http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/37864/nl
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/18/fifty-literary-life-robert-mccrum
1. Less is more. Or, "the only art is to omit" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
3. Whatever works, works.
7. Poets are either the lions or the termites of the literary jungle.
11. This is a golden age of reading.
22. A great novel can cost as much as a pencil and a pad of paper -- or
a whole life.
32. A secret is something that is only repeated to one person at a time.
[shame about he grammatical mistake ;-).]
40. Great booksellers are a bit mad.
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