When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops…

Salman Rushdie
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. ✨ 'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'. Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2005.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. ✨ 'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'. Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2005.

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