Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition. (N. Scott Momaday)

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

N. Scott Momaday

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