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Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

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Betsy Byars
Age: 91 †
Born: 1928
Born: August 7
Died: 2020
Died: February 26
Author
Novelist
Writer
Charlotte
North Carolina
Betsy Cromer Byars
Anything
Hammering
Better
Sewing
Take
Nails
Writing
Piano
Work
Baseball
Time
Longer
Like
Playing
Seems

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