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Katie Grant – Why I Write

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.

14 September, 2014
Katie Grant

Except for the supremely confident, the arrogant and the self-deluded, writing is an unsatisfactory occupation of wickedly high highs and wickedly low lows.

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