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I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many i have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. they aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
-James A. Michener
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I Am Always Interested In Why Young

James A. Michener
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many i have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. they aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
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