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Writer Quotes by John Gardner
- As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the…
- To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so…
- If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a…
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