Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer  when he tried to write of some particular day  he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt  and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it  they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense  but that ability is at the bottom of writing  I am sure.
Maxwell Perkins
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