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To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.

Dwight V. Swain

Dwight V. Swain

Dwight V. Swain

Born: 1915

Died: 1992 (aged 77)

Bio: Dwight Vreeland Swain, born in Rochester, Michigan, was an American writer.

Known for:

Techniques of the Selling Writer (1965)
Film scriptwriting (1976)
The Transposed Man (1955)
Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses

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