The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has …

Arthur Miller
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The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always. ✨ Richard Isadore Evans, Arthur Miller (1969). Psychology and Arthur Miller, Praeger Publishers
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