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If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like I have to disappear into myself to write books. I go away, into my head, for hours and weeks at a time, and I hate that I miss everything. It's pretty selfish to want to pause other people, isn't it?

Rainbow Rowell

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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