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   Nobel Writers on Writing

   Ottar G. Draugsvold

   “The creative instinct is … an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born inexplicably in an individual… — an energy which no single life can consume.”

   December 12, 1938: Pearl S Buck, the youngest woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, on writing, art, and the creative impulse:

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