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It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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