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Do Shy People Make the Best Writers?
Conceal, Reveal
Why are shy people such as E.B. White, J.K. Rowling, and Joan Didion drawn to writing as a career? Are shy authors more likely to grasp ‘the nature and beauty of brevity’?
Joe Moran
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Mar. 11 2017
12:01AM EST
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