If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Stephen Sondheim
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As a writer, I love to read. When I read a book, I feel as though the words are flowing from the author’s mind through my fingertips. In other words, I completely understand what the author is saying and why he wrote what he did. However, when the book is over, I want to keep reading more about that character or setting or idea or anything that was introduced in that book.

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