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Enid Bagnold: Who wants to...

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Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities...

Source: Autobiography, ch. 3, 1969.
-- Enid Bagnold, (Oct 27 1889-1981), English novelist, playwright; She was known for her broad range of subject and style; wrote National Velvet, 1935 and the prize-winning play The Chalk Garden, 1956.


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