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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Requires
Enormous
Discipline
Terms
Nonfiction
Term
Construct
Story
Constructs
Stories
Stick
Sticks

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