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How to Tell if You’re a Writer

March 25, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”  — Thomas Mann

Filed Under: A Case of the Human Condition, On Writing & Reading, The Writing Room

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