As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a g…

Rachel Cusk
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next. ✨ I was only being honest by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. Match 21, 2008.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next. ✨ I was only being honest by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. Match 21, 2008.

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