Most artists don't have anything to say when they start out
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It's not at all uncommon for the author of some really trite and cliched piece of work to say, in an interview, "This is the story I was born to tell. The characters just really spoke to me, and they would not allow me to rest until I wrote this book."
Meanwhile I'm sitting there being like...really? This book? The Tolkien clone that I just read?
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