Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, author (28 Jan 1873-1954)

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Colette was a French author and woman of letters nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948; also known as a mime, actress, and journalist.