The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck …

Virginia Woolf
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1984). The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941, Harcourt
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