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All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?

Philip Pullman

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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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