What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. (Burton Rascoe)

What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Burton Rascoe

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