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| 571926d | Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you. Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. | literature reading writing writers-on-reading encouragement skill writers | Ernest Hemingway | |
| ab4dbcf | I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different. | writers-on-reading writers-life writers-on-writing writers-quotes | Richard Wright |