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Dullness is a misdemeanour.Ethel Wilson
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Dullness is a misdemeanor.Ethel Wilson
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The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.Ethel Wilson
4 Quotes & Sayings By Ethel Wilson
Ethel Wilson was a prolific and best-selling American writer of short stories and novels in the 1930s and 1940s. Her career spanned from the 1920s to the 1960s, with a hiatus in the 1940s due to illness. She is best known for her short stories about small town life in Virginia and for her bestselling novel "Lovers and Other Strangers" (1943). Wilson's writing career began in the 1920s, when she worked as a copy editor for The Richmond News Leader
In 1925, she became a full-time freelance writer, and began publishing short stories in magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. She also wrote for New York newspapers and worked as an advertising copywriter during World War II. Her first novel, "Lovers and Other Strangers", was published in 1943, and brought her international recognition; it was made into an Academy Award winning film in 1954 by Otto Preminger.