I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.
Ron Rash Carolinian
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Interview with Scott Simon, Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR, February 16, 2013
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