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Hanif Kureishi has some bad news for everyone
Earlier this week, novelist Hanif Kureishi (The Buddha of Suburbia, and others) dropped a bomb on writers and potential writers. The Guardian quotes his remark about his students: "it's probably 99.9 per cent who are not talented and the little bit that is left is talent." Kureishi also described creative writing courses as "a waste of time." This is the nature versus nurture debate in the literary world. Can a writer be taught or are they born?
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