Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a…

Annie Dillard
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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room. ✨ Annie Dillard (2016). The Abundance, p.82, Canongate Books
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