Zadie Smith on Writers, Writing, and ...Hair

"On the Road: American Writers and Their Hair"
http://www.eyeshot.net/zadiesmith.html

one of my favorite quotes:
"Any original thought the writer ever had – every pretty black mark she ever made on a piece of white paper – is replaced by the endlessly reoccurring phenomena of the writer’s own name rising up at them in embossed font on the front of a book they have come to despise"