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• ‟ Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it for years. It takes something - guts, gumption, self-delusion - to ask for a reader's time when we all know there's nothing new under the sun; that it's all been said, or written, before.

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• ‟ Shopping for clothes is time consuming, it's tiring, and it can feel like a waste of an autumn afternoon.

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• ‟ I have a theory that because my kitchen is small, you can't preheat an oven and deal with dough at the same time, although maybe it's just that I'm a bad baker.

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• ‟ Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.

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• ‟ Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.

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• ‟ Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it often results in tortured metaphors.

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