![If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.](/assets/img/quote-photos/if-the-writer-achieves-anything-noble-anything-enduring-it-must-be-by-giving.jpg)
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