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someone who stares at a wall and calls it work, then bleeds onto a page.
means A person who composes written work — books, articles, stories, or scripts — especially as a profession or calling.
from From the Old English 'writan,' meaning to scratch, score, or cut — because before ink and paper, writing was literally carving marks into wood, stone, or bone. The 'writer' was first a scratcher of surfaces. The word is related to Old Norse 'rita' and German 'reissen' (to tear or rip), keeping that sense of dragging a sharp point through a resisting surface — which any writer facing a blank page will tell you still feels accurate.
- Daily torment
- Most rewrite a sentence twenty times before noon
- Royal habit
- Shakespeare invented over 1,700 English words
- Caffeine engine
- Balzac drank up to 50 coffees daily
- Pen names
- Mary Ann Evans wrote as George Eliot
- Cold truth
- Most never finish the novel they started
william shakespeare — english playwright and poet who wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets, 1564-1616
jane austen — english novelist who wrote pride and prejudice and emma, 1775-1817
leo tolstoy — russian author of war and peace and anna karenina, 1828-1910
toni morrison — american novelist who won the nobel prize in literature in 1993