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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.
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