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I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Always
Rather
Read
Write
Need
Needs
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Something

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