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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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