Write for Yourself
"Better to write for yourself and not have an audience than to write for an audience and not be yourself".
Thus wrote Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974) English critic and writer. What do you think? In the meantime you think about it I tell you why I try to write every day. What the English critic says is, like all categorical statements, only half true.
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