When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying t — Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying t — Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying t — Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying t — Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying t — Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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