Sep 6, 2008
It is, alas, a truism that authors generally have less experience than other men. This owing to the incontestable fact that you simply can’t be in two places at once. Either you’re in front of the typewriter, writing, or you’re out in the world having experiences. Therefore, since you need to write and you need to have experiences to write about, you have to learn to do more with less. And doing more with less is, in a word, what writing is all about.

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  • Anonymous, 2009-12-26: These words were written by H. L. Mencken in a letter to Arturo Bandini.   

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