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" Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it. "

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" I used to roof hay barns for my father. It's dangerous work. Writing is much better. "

" I read a handful of memoirs to get a sense of what the genre meant. I needed to learn the fundamentals of the craft. I had never written a word of narrative. What is a tense shift, what is point of view? I didn't know any of it. "

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