One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. (E. L. Doctorow)

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

E. L. Doctorow

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