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When i'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, i'm not thinking theoretically. i'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters i've got.
-Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
When i'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, i'm not thinking theoretically. i'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters i've got.
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