"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.“


-Lawrence Clark Powell

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To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

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