Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. ✨ Writers at Work: The Pari…

John Steinbeck
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. ✨ Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series. Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter On Critics, 1977.
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