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 | | "What is a writer who likes to write longhand supposed to do when she hits her stride and then realises, to her horror, that she has covered every bit of blank paper in her bag?" she asked, horrified at the thought that Edinburgh university students have abandoned pen and ink for laptop computers. |
 | | Her legions of fans, terrified at the prospect of any delay in the publication of the next - and, indeed, the final - installment of the Harry Potter saga, or perhaps anguished at the thought of a check to Rowling's inspiration, took pity on her plight and began sending in books-worth of the stuff. |
 | | A self-described "nonfiction writer with a soft heart for secondary characters," Talese (along with his wife, literary editor Nan Talese) may represent the New York literary aristocracy, but he still writes with relish about the odd, largely anonymous (or noncelebrity, anyway) characters he encounters in his peregrinations. |
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