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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami On Writing by Stephen King Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf Story by Robert McKee The Art of Fiction by John Gardner A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty The Making of a Poem by Mark Strand Which Lie Did I Tell? by William Goldman
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Marina Warner
“Like ´Bluebeard´, the fairy tale of ´Snow White´does not record a single, appalling crime, but testifies to a structural and endemic conflict in society that was political and social as well as personal, producing many, many instances of similar violence.”
― Marina Warner, Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
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