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#164: Albert Read, managing director, Condé Nast Britain

Always Take Notes

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The Most Important Traits a Writer Should Have

The novelist Ian McEwan tells you about the most important traits a writer should have wow a love of solitude solitude being one of the great luxuries of civilization and we must distinguish it from loneliness. A taste for the pleasures of your own thoughts is absolutely crucial to the art of dedicating yourself to writing novels. If there's no pleasure in the writing you might as well stop that was Ian McEwans full interview on Always Take Notes.

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