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How To Become A Writer
You see, there is but one road to authorship. It remains forever a way in which each man must go a-pioneering. The struggles of the pen may be as severe as those of the axe and hammer. One needs right mental eyes to discern the signs of talent which writers have left on their pages, like so many “blazes” upon trees in the forest.... | | 
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| Title: | | How To Become A Writer |
| From: | | Out Of The Dark |
| Creator: | | Helen Keller (author) |
| Date: | | 1920 |
| Format: | | Article |
| Publisher: | | Doubleday, Page & Company, New York |
| Source: | | Available at selected libraries |
| Location: | | pp.121-124 |
| Keywords: | | Blind; Children; Communication; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Helen Keller; Sensory Disability; Work |
| Topics: | | Mass Media, Culture & The Arts |
| Note: | | A letter to a blind boy. Printed in the World’s Work, April, 1910. |
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