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It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

William Browning Spencer

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

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About William Browning Spencer

William Browning Spencer (born 1946) is an American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surrealistically humorous.