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I was writing, yeah, but nothing spectacular. I had some unicorn notebook, and all of my stories were the same. And it’s funny because I actually think it’s the same plot I still use. Like, ‘Once upon a time a bunch of magical forest creatures lived in peace!’ ‘And then,’ new paragraph, ‘there was a flood!’ [Laughs.] It’s really all the same.
- Karen Russell when asked if she’d been writing since elementary school.