> 'A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.'"...
I think Tolstoy was a first-thing-in-the-morning writer too!!
"something is offering you a guidance available only to those undistracted by anything else."

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