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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 7 Arts and letters 17 Politics and public life 3 Business and finance 11 Technology 8 Sport 5
Read by age Any age Before thirty 1 In their thirties 6 In their forties 4 In their fifties 8 In their sixties 4 Seventy and beyond 5
Ursula K. Le Guin Novelist, poet and essayist
Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximise corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.
Recorded National Book Awards ceremony, New York, 19 November 2014, ursulakleguin.com (the author's own site), 19 November 2014 source ↗
John Banville Novelist; winner of the Booker Prize, 2005
But my own mottos are, “Don’t imagine for a moment that you’re going to be able to express yourself.” ... And most aspiring artists think, “I have something to say.”
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 18 October 2017 source ↗

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