2. Philip Roth wrote a string of middling, flawed & terrible books in the early 1970s (Great American Novel, Our Gang, My Life as a Man)
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12. We're all going to write badly at one time or another: the thing is to fail productively rather than get mired in our botched work.
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13. Of course, Beckett was way ahead of me on all this: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
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@HeerJeet I'm reminded of this story Charles Johnson wrote about meeting Bellow: http://ethelbert-miller.blogspot.com/2011/02/writers-and-editors.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Too Big To Edit is something that's plagued me a lot lately: George R.R. Martin and J.K. Rowling strike me as examples. -
@AlyssaRosenberg Yeah, I thought of them too (although I haven't read the later books in the series so wasn't sure they applied). - Show replies
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