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My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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