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If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
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This page presents the quote "If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.". Author of this quote is Willa Cather. This quote is about writing, time, perfect, force, five years, work, mature, quiet, better than you,.