Writing&Stupidity

"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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