Advice To The Young

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Best-selling Italian novelist Umberto Eco here advises aspiring writers not to take themselves too seriously, but to go step by step and remember that: Youre 10 per cent inspiration and 90 per cent perspiration.

If you start off thinking that youre a true genius and that youll be receiving the Nobel Prize any moment, you have a problem: That kills every literary career.

Umberto Eco was interviewed in his apartment in Milan b...