On Writing
“I had been writing for fifteen years and getting nowhere. Everything I had written was derivative, influenced by others. Then finally I…
“I had been writing for fifteen years and getting nowhere. Everything I had written was derivative, influenced by others. Then finally I decided to please myself. It was a great gamble, but finally I cut the umbilical cord, and in severing it I became an entity. I became myself.”
— Henry Miller
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