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In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.
Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
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- Jose Saramago
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- Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Jose Saramago: recorded author lifetime 1922–2010. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37060 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is jose-saramago; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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