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Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some...

Quote by John Dos Passos about invention, originality, writers, writing, world, time

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a...

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Quote by Joseph Conrad about art, personality, action, artists, man

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