A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
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"A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time." — Arthur Koestler
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A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. — Arthur Koestler
About Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler was a Novelist from Austria-Hungary (1905–1983).
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This quote is attributed to Arthur Koestler, a Novelist from Austria-Hungary.
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Arthur Koestler lived from 1905 – 1983.