The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. (Thornton Wilder)

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Thornton Wilder

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