A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

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The writer who is afraid of expansion and who can’t tolerate the idea of spicing his or her work with something that he or she knows nothing about is a writer who will always be in danger of falling into mediocrity. The writer who can face any subject and find something new to say is the kind of writer every reader wants.

Source: The Diary Of Anaas Nin, Vol. 1: 19311934

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