shockproof

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“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.”

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source: The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 61.

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medium: interview

notes: Originally published in Issue 18 of The Paris Review, 1958.