Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does. (Anne Roiphe)

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Anne Roiphe

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