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Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

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Jennifer Crusie
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 17
Author
Novelist
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Wapakoneta
Ohio
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Caving
Pressures
Defending
Pressure
Outside
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Vision

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Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
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