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Complacency: The Writer

Jul 22, 2015

“The moment a writer knows how to achieve a certain effect, the method must be abandoned. Effects repeated become false, mannered. The writer’s style is his doppelgänger, an apparition that the writer must never trust to do his work for him.”

~ Joy Williams

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