Famous quote by Arthur Koestler

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"A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time"

- Arthur Koestler

Ambition

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This quote is written / told by Arthur Koestler between September 5, 1905 and March 3, 1983. He/she was a famous Novelist from Hungary. The author also have 15 other quotes.

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