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The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Even
Editing
Deal
Deals
Doubt
Impossible
Bigs
Self
Writing
Excruciatingly

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