Plus he thinks at the end that he can write "as Steinbeck did in The Grapes of Wrath" and is surprised that his book was considered "apprentice-level work", bec

Plus he thinks at the end that he can write "as Steinbeck did in The Grapes of Wrath" and is surprised that his book was considered "apprentice-level work", because he spent three years working on it, never mind the fact that real writers spent many years and had many false starts while honing their skills (10 years or 10000 hours to master something, supposedly)