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First Draft - Elizabeth Strout (Returns)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Lucy Barton - What's Your Question?

I think probably partly because my mother encouraged me to write from a very young age, she would buy me notebooks and say, okay, write down what you did today. And I think also, like when I did read books and realized that through that book, I was allowed to be inside somebody's head. That was how I was going to try and get into somebody else's head and give it to a reader who could therefore get into the head as well. But it wasn't anything that I ever started out planning. It's just something that honestly just happened. Like all of showed up again. So I had to write about her again. With Lucy, my name is Lucy Barton,

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