Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.

Catherine Drinker Bowen
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are...
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are...
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are...
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are...
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Some people believe that writers prefer to be alone. Some even believe that writers don’t like people. These people are wrong. Writers love people; they just don’t like self-centered, egotistical, inconsiderate people who make them work for their money, break their clavicles, and never return phone calls.

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