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"Something dumb about all
the great writers of fiction"
from the Observer Review, 27 May 2001: 16
by Jason Cowley
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A couple of years ago, Martin Amis and I were talking about
why the critic James Wood, comfortably the smartest of his generation, had not
written a novel, despite having signalled his intention to do so. Amis's
explanation was convincing: Wood was almost too intelligent to write fiction.
'There's something dumb about all the great writers of fiction, a certain
stupidity,' he said.
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