There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having…

Katherine Paterson
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There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid. ✨ Katherine Paterson (2011). Read for Your Life #18, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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