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The “dog chewing up the writer’s work” was borrowed for Jim Jarmusch’s film “Paterson,” when the poet’s diary is wrecked by a playful dog.

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If you want to be a writer, write. That is the consistent message of The Writer’s Almanac.

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I think perhaps more to the point: First read everything you can get your hands on, and the write, write, write.

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