"Writing is also a profession, and, at its best, an honourable one. It has been made honourable by those who have already been members of it. Whether you like it or not, every time you set pen to paper you’re staring at the same blank space that confronted Milton, Melville, Emily Bronte, Dostoevsky and George Eliot, George Orwell and William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf and William Carlos Williams, not to mention the latest hero, Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
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Nobel laureates in LiteratureAutobiographersMagic realism authorsNovelists from ColombiaShort story writers from Columbia
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Margaret Atwood, "An End to Audience?" (1980), collected in Second Words: selected critical prose
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