A Quote by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.
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I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.
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There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.
You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.
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