To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. (Lawrence Clark Powell)

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Lawrence Clark Powell

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