"How often I have tried to tell writing……" — Ellen Gilchrist
"How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen."
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Ellen Gilchrist
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