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If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.
Approximate author period: c. 1992 AD · modern
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- Joanne Harris
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- Approximate author period: c. 1992 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Joanne Harris: documented activity in 1992. Wikidata Q234718, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234718 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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