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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

Samantha Shannon

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Samantha Shannon
Age: 33
Born: 1991
Born: November 8
Author
Writer
Hammersmith
London
Writing
Doors
Never
Please
Like
Novel
Open
Anything
Take
Knocking
Feel
Desperate
Feels
Door

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