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If only you’d remember before you ever sit down to...

“If only you’d remember before you ever sit down to write that you’ve been a reader much longer than you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world [you] would most want to read…

— J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction (Thanks to Ralph LaCorte, who emailed this to me)

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