Betsy LernerThe world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.
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The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life, meaning the world doesn't make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on paper.
Source: The Forest For The Trees
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