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Writer Quotes by Thomas Mann
- A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
- The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
- A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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