Colette on the Difference Between a Writer and an Author

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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his [or her] own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

Collette

Comments

[andrian6]

Excellent quote. Thank you!

[greygirlbeast]

Fucking brilliant.