“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works”

—  John Dos Passos

"Looking Back on U.S.A.," New York Times, Oct 25 1959
Context: If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.

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novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, painter 1896–1970

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