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   Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do

   Meredith Maran

   “I write to dream; to connect with other human beings; to record; to clarify; to visit the dead. I have a kind of primitive need to leave a mark on the world.”

   Mary Karr, and other literary greats including Jennifer Egan, James Fray, Susan Orlean, and Michael Lewis, on writing.

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