If you cannot produce and maintain the conviction in your re... - Stendhal

This quote is attributed to Stendhal.

"If you cannot produce and maintain the conviction in your reader that the things you're writing about matter, then none of the rest of it matters."

Stendhal Literature

Novelist French 1783–1842

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