"Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write."

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"Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write."

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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

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