“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Source: Essays of Three Decades (1942)
“Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.”
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