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A writer is only a writer when writing

Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 09:00

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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Saturday, 12 May 2012, 08:10

‘A writer only feels he or she is a writer at the point of performance, the moment of writing. Do anything else, even related activities like research or background reading, and the claim seems fraudulent. A writer is only a writer when writing. The rest is marking time'. Alan Bennett, Untold Stories (2006)