"Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]"

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Anna Quindlen is an American columnist, novelist, and nonfiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 for her work in journalism and later became widely read for novels and essays on family, social life, and public issues. Her writing spans newspapers, magazines, and bestselling books.

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