Some authors have what ...

Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.
 Fannie Hurst

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[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.
 Fannie Hurst
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
 Fannie Hurst