A List of 50 Secrets
30. Most prose writers should be discouraged from reading their work in public. See Somerset Maugham’s “Mr Harrington’s Washing.”
31. Moby-Dick sold fewer than 10,000 copies in Melville’s lifetime.
32. A secret is something that is only repeated to one person at a time.
33. The majority of bestsellers are ghosted.
34. Lists are the curse of the age.
The Guardian’s Robert McCrum has a delightful list of “Fifty things I’ve learned about the literary age.”
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