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Amy Durant

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I live on the internet and I write a lot.

I like chocolate and animals and intelligence and punctuation. As one does.

It seems to have become a thing for people to contact me to review their books. Please stop it. I'm not interested. If I wanted to review your book, *I* would contact *you*. There are better ways to contact me than through Goodreads; if you're savvy, you can figure out what those are, and for the love of all that's holy, people, TAILOR YOUR PITCHES TO THE PEOPLE YOU'RE PITCHING. Do I really look like I want to review your vampire humor erotica? (In case you're confused - I don't.)

Also, authors, absolutely do NOT friend me on Twitter, then five seconds later request friendship on here, I assume to get me to read your work. Thi ...more

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I’m coming back home tomorrow, to 14th Street

There are a few things they don’t tell you when you start working in a newsroom.

First off, it looks NOTHING like this. NO ONE WEARS TIES!

They don’t tell you you’ll probably be scraping by, pay-wise.

They don’t tell you that your work doesn’t exactly end when you leave the building.

They don’t tell you your news-brain will get turned on and you are always thinking news news NEWS. Do we need this?

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Out of True

4.25 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions

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“We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.”
― Margaret Atwood

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