"Don’t try to impose your will on a book before you know what it is—or what it needs. Writing is a kind of trust exercise: you do the work, you show up again and again, and over time the story begins to meet you. It’s like standing at the edge of a clearing, palm open, trying to lure a wild animal out of the woods. Little by little, it creeps closer. And listen to your obsessions. Whatever you can’t stop thinking about—that’s your compass."
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Paula McLain
(born 1965) is an American author of several novels, two collections of poetry, and a . Her novel ', a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's marriage to , was a New York Times bestseller.
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