Fannie Hurst
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"Fannie Hurst" was an United States/American novelist. Although her books are not well remembered today, during her lifetime some of her more famous novels were Stardust (1919), Lummox (1923), A President is Born (1927), Back Street (novel)/Back Street (1931), and Imitation of Life (novel)/Imitation of Life (1933). Hurst is now best known for the Film adaptation/screen adaptations of her works, such as the 1934 film Imitation of Life (1934 film)/Imitation of Life and the Imitation of Life (1959 film)/1959 remake, based on her novel, which examined race relations.

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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that "something else" that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.