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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
Zadie Smith Novelist and essayist
Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no “writer’s lifestyle”. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Recorded The Guardian Review, 20 February 2010 source ↗

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