“She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashlight in the other, refining her poems, jotting down the lines of a conceit. Writing never came easy for her; it gave her calluses. She never courted the muses, she wrestled them, mauled them all over the house and came up, after weeks of peripatetic labor, with a slim Spencerian sonnet, fourteen lines of imagistic jabberwocky.”
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Millard Kaufman
Millard Kaufman, born on March 12, 1917, was a renowned American screenwriter. His career began in the 1940s, where he wrote scripts for classic films such as 'The Great Dictator' and 'The Adventures of Mark Twain'. Kaufman was known for his humorous and witty writing style, which had a profound impact on the Hollywood film industry. more
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