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Colette: Sit down and...

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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Colette, (Jan 28 1873-1954), French author; Her novels are noted for intimate style and deep feeling for nature, e.g., Claudine at School, 1930 and GiGi, 1943.


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