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October 12, 2012 By Meg Waite Clayton

E.B. White and Friedrich Nietzsche on Writing and Friends … and Please Share Links to Your Writer-Pals

I was just about to tweet the E.B. White quote “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer” with thanks to some of my writer-pals. But in the process, I realized that I have far too many good writer pals to even begin to list them in 140 characters, even when I limit them to the ones who tweet. Which did leave me reconsidering the quote!
So I’d like to offer instead a Friedrich Nietzsche quote – “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.” – with thanks to all my friends whose spirits I aspire to possess. Many of my Bay Area writer pals are listed on the page here tabbed “Writer Pals,” but I’d like to give a special shout out to my two best writer-pals, Brenda Rickman Vantrease and Mac Clayton.
If you have a friend who writes (published or not) and would like to be a good friend to them, please post a link to their websites or blogs in the comments below! – Meg

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com

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