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“You don’t go out and and ‘commit experience’ for the sake of writing about it later; and if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn’t struck you.”
— Mar 29, 2019 07:24AM
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“Talent can’t be taught, but it can be awakened—by reading, by contact with other talents, by exposure to an environment where the expression of talent is valued and encouraged.”
— Apr 04, 2019 11:18AM
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“Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.”
— Mar 29, 2019 07:22AM