Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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