“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.”
A Map of the World (1982), cited from Carol Homden, The Plays of David Hare (1995), p. 124.
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