A writer must be born with a gift for writing, just as a mus... - Ivan Turgenev

This quote is attributed to Ivan Turgenev.

"A writer must be born with a gift for writing, just as a musician must be born with an ear for music."

Ivan Turgenev Creativity

Novelist Poet Russian 1818–1883

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