Advice from Philip Roth to a young writer who has just had his first book published:
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“Yeah, this is great. But I would quit while you’re ahead. Really, it’s an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it’s not any good. I would say just stop now. You don’t want to do this to yourself. That’s my advice to you.”
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http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...e-life-advice/