There could be nothing so important as a book can be.
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Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it.
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Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.
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Birth: | 20th September, 1884 |
Death: | 17th June, 1947 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Editor, Writer |
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