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It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.
Janette Turner Hospital
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Janette Turner Hospital
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 12
Novelist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Seems
Drown
Enough
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Writing
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Buoyant
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