Editing Writer (section)

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'''Even though he is in love with the same woman, Cyrano helps his inarticulate friend, Rageneau, to woo her by writing on his behalf ...'''<br />
CYRANO:   What hour is it now, Ragueneau?
RAGUENEAU (stopping short in the act of thrusting to look at the clock): Five minutes after six!...'I touch!' (He straightens himself):   ...Oh! to write a ballade!
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RAGUENEAU:   Ten minutes after six.
CYRANO: (nervously seating himself at Ragueneau's table, and drawing some paper toward him): A pen!. . .
RAGUENEAU (giving him the one from behind his ear): Here – a swan's quill.
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CYRANO (taking up the pen, and motioning Ragueneau away):  Hush! (To himself): I will write, fold it, give it her, and fly! (Throws down the pen): Coward! ...But strike me dead if I dare to speak to her, ...ay, even one single word! (To Ragueneau): What time is it?
RAGUENEAU:   A quarter after six! ...
CYRANO (striking his breast): Ay-a single word of all those here! here!  But writing, 'tis easier done... (He takes up the pen): Go to, I will write it, that love-letter!  Oh!  I have writ it and rewrit it in my own mind so oft that it lies there ready for pen and ink; and if I lay but my soul by my letter-sheet, 'tis naught to do but to copy from it.  (He writes.  ...)<br />[[Edmond Rostand]], ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]''<br />Act II, Scene 2, (3)<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1445091&pageno=50| title = Rostand, ''Cyrano de Bergerac'': Act II, Scene 2, (3)}}</ref>
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Writers may write a particular piece for payment (even if at other times, they write for another reason), such as when they are commissioned to create a new work, transcribe an original one, translate another writer's work, or write for someone who is illiterate or inarticulate. In some cases, writing has been the only way an individual could earn an income. [[Frances Milton Trollope|Frances Trollope]] is an example of women who wrote to save herself and her family from penury, at a time when there were very few socially acceptable employment opportunities for them. Her book about her experiences in the United States, called ''[[Domestic Manners of the Americans]]'' became a great success, "even though she was over fifty and had never written before in her life" after which "she continued to write hard, carrying this on almost entirely before breakfast".<ref name=Moore>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Katherine|title=Victorian Wives|year=1974|publisher=Allison & Busby|location=London, New York|isbn=0-85031-634-0|pages=65–71}}</ref> According to her writer son [[Anthony Trollope]] "her books saved the family from ruin".<ref name=Moore />

{{Quotation| ''I write for two reasons; partly to make money and partly to win the respect of people whom I respect.''<br />[[E. M. Forster]], novelist, essayist, librettist<ref name=Forster>Quoted in the introduction to the author in the 1962 edition of {{cite book|last=E.M. Forster|title=Aspects of the Novel|year=1927|publisher=Penguin|author-link=E. M. Forster|title-link=Aspects of the Novel}}</ref>}}