🗨️ there are two kinds of writers

E.M. Forster (whose 90th birthday party I attended when I was a student) once said that there are two kinds of writers: those who know what they think, and write it; and those who find out what they think by trying to write it.

Info:

• Source: [[Naughton, John]]. “Monday 22 November, 2021.” [[Memex 1.1]], 22 Nov 2021, https://johnnaughton.substack.com/p/monday-22-november-2021.
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