Thornton WilderIf you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good
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If you write to impress, then you will always have a sense of insecurity about your work. You will feel insecure because you are afraid that your writing isn’t good enough. It is true that a writer should be concerned about whether or not their work is good enough, but a writer should be more concerned about expressing themselves. If you write to impress, your work will always be bad, but if you write to express yourself, then your work will always be good.
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