Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond…. a good feeling about his art.”
Poetry and the World, Ecco Press,1988
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American poet, editor, literary critic, academic. 1940Related quotes
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