Fail better: What makes a good writer?

[Ya Sam]

I like this one:

"the dream Philip Roth wishes to wake us from still counts as sleep if 
Pynchon is the dream-catcher."





>Fail better
>
>What makes a good writer? Is writing an expression of self, or, as TS
>Eliot argued, 'an escape from personality'? Do novelists have a duty?
>Do readers? Why are there so few truly great novels? Zadie Smith on
>literature's legacy of honourable failure
>
>Saturday January 13, 2007
>The Guardian
>http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1988887,00.html

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