Stan - yeah I was told that by the English teachers at school and 6th form college..

But my factory council estate parents
didn't have an upper middle class privileged old-school-tie social network
of media and publishing contacts....

.. and also playing and partying in a band
was far more fun than sitting in a solitary room with nothing but a typewriter...

Having said that, one of my best mates from grammar school,
who did belong to a middle class arty farty family,
has become a successful novelist and media personality...