Margaret AtwoodEveryone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.
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Every writer knows that what he writes is much less important than the fact that he writes. He writes because it is important for him to write, not because he thinks his work will be good.
Source: Dancing Girls
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