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The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. that's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.
-Ursula K. Le Guin
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The One Thing A Writer Has To

Ursula K. Le Guin
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. that's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.
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