
First Draft - Charles Baxter (Returns!)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Dostoyevsky's the Master of Petersburg
A beer and piza and stubbornness, a refusal to give up are some of the keys. So can you read a passage from an author that speaks to your influence as a writer? I'd be happy. i found a passage in john or j m is the master of petersburg which is about dostoyevsky. And there's a passage in which kosia has dostoevsky thinking about writing and writers. An ape on a harmonium would do better. We do not write out of plenty, he wants to say. We write out of anguish, out of lack. Surely in your heart, you must know that as for your so called true father
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