Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. (Salman Rushdie)

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Salman Rushdie

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