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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

Patrick Ness

American Author

Born: Oct 17, 1971

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Expectation, Sit, Down, Think, Other, Way, Kids, Would, Would-Be, About, Write, Excruciating, Go, Sneak, Going, Either, Which, Then, Novel

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