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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
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Luckily
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Brainstorming

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Is that all? she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. That's all there is.
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