Virginia WoolfFor it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
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All of us become a writer, not just the fingers. There is a nerve which controls the pen and it winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
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