"[Elizabeth] Bishop explains: 'Henry James once said that he who would aspire to be a writer must inscribe on his banner the one word: Loneliness ... You might have 'susceptibility' on your banner, and yet never get down a decent sentence. The bitter lesson is that you might undergo all the suffering prescribed for the writing apprenticeship, and still never take creative flight..."
Tessa Hadley in Author, Author, The Guardian
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