Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm. David Nicholls
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It is said that the true writer writes on nothing more than paper. When you are true to your calling, you are able to express your emotions freely without any limitations of your profession. It is said that the true writer writes on nothing more than paper. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.

This phrase is about Emma, who has a love for paper products and stationery, but she has no idea what she really wants to do with her life. She is lost in her profession, never finding herself in it.

Source: One Day

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