“Talk about the ideas in the work everywhere. Talk about the work itself nowhere. Don’t be the person who tweets “I’m working on my novel.” Be too busy writing for that. Helen Simpson has “Faire et se taire” from Flaubert on a Post-it near her desk, which she translates as “Shut up and get on with it.””
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