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Larry Hogue's avatar

Excellent essay! Write what you know is always taken too literally, especially by the proponents of auto fiction. And about that quote, I’d always heard it attributed to Red Smith, and that was before the Internet made it impossible to know who said anything.

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Thaddeus Thomas's avatar

Somebody,. somewhere, bled on a typewriter. That’s all I know. lol

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