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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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And it says a lot about you that you assess the value of literature only with reference to commercial transactions.
How crass.
How many times has Jilly Cooper won the Booker prize?
( , Wed 8 Jan 2014, 10:37, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

you're all high end pretension - all fart and no poo.
sure, if I could choose, i'd love to write booker contending stuff, but that's simply not my style. I can write light, funny, slightly sad/cutting things in a certain style that got me a distinction in my main pieces from oxford and 5 agents handing me their cards because it was not as clever or beautiful as the girl who wrote a poetic novel - but they knew they could sell mine, whereas nobody would read hers. if I ever manage to get the time to write anything publishable, it won't be great literature, it will be froth. but it will make people laugh, and it will pay the rent. i'd be very happy with that.
( , Wed 8 Jan 2014, 10:43, Reply)

but if they did, you sure as hell wouldn't get in
( , Wed 8 Jan 2014, 11:00, Reply)

but don't use ten long words where one will do, eh?
( , Wed 8 Jan 2014, 11:02, Reply)

Martin's the newsagent is a bit posh for you.
( , Wed 8 Jan 2014, 10:56, Reply)
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