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The soundest advice ever given to a writer is Hemingway’s: a writer should never read his critics. If he believes them when they praise him, he must believe them when they say he is no longer good. That undermines his self-confidence, the prerequisite for a job well done.
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© 1992 International Council for Soviet and East European Studies, and Celia Hawkesworth
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Skvorecký, J. (1992). Reception: An Authorial Experience. In: Hawkesworth, C. (eds) Literature and Politics in Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22238-4_2
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