It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the…

Virginia Woolf
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It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). The Common Reader, p.344, Lulu Press, Inc
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It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). The Common Reader, p.344, Lulu Press, Inc

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