Riding Quote by Karen Thompson Walker

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“Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.”

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An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

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“She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.”

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