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Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
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Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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