Carolina QuotesI cannot remember a time when I did not consider myself a writer.
Lois Duncan Connected to the Carolinas
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Quoted in The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies (1997), p. 109
- work
- 1990–2002
- year
- 1990
- locator
- p. 109
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