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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Something
Relieve
Never
Bother
Like
Unless
Help
Write
Helping
Mosquito
Book
Itch
Writing
Mosquitoes

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