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"Despite Tough Guys, Life Is Not the Only School for Real Novelists," New York Times (1999-05-24) - Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. | WIST Quotations
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. Part of the Times "Writers on Writing" series. In Man Without a Country, ch. 3 "Here Is a Lesson in Creative Writing" (2005), Vonnegut expanded on this: Practicing an art, no…