Marge PiercyThe real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
” - Conrad Aiken Conrad Aiken was a famous American writer of short stories, poems, essays, and novels. He was also a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist. Aiken’s best known works are his short stories, which include “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” and “The Catcher in the Rye.” Conrad Aiken once said that talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire.
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved."
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