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The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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Identity politics are wearisome you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
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For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
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