‘All critics are failed writers,’ someone with a New Zealand accent said on Desert Island Discs the other day.
‘All critics are failed writers,’ someone with a New Zealand accent said on Desert Island Discs the other day. Obviously I have completely blanked out who it was, but I do know she was talking out of her fundament.
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