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"To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only."
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"I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing."
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"To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only."
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