"The Role of A writer is not to Say What We All Can Say, but....
- threekeysposted 9 years ago
0"The Role of A writer is not to Say What We All Can Say, but....
what people are unable to Say"-Anais Nin
So is it about writing the "one true sentence"? The "truest sentence you can write? Or is it more about the novel rather than the short story-if you know what I mean?
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