Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction. (Anaïs Nin)

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

Anaïs Nin

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