Believe Quote by Leslie Pietrzyk

“My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.” quote by Leslie Pietrzyk — Download Open image

“My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.”

Leslie Pietrzyk

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