Who said "A writer is not merely a man who arranges words on a page."?

This quote is attributed to Nikolai Gogol.

A writer is not merely a man who arranges words on a page. - Nikolai Gogol

"A writer is not merely a man who arranges words on a page."

Nikolai Gogol Literature

Novelist Playwright Russian 1809–1852

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