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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Reese Witherspoon Reveals What Inspired Her to Write Her First Novel · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Reese Witherspoon has been involved in storytelling
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Speaker 1: since she was a teenager, first as an actress and
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Speaker 1: then as a producer, eventually running her own wildly successful
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Speaker 1: production company, Hello Sunshine. But for her newest story, she's
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Speaker 1: pulling from an even deeper place as a novelist. Reese
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Speaker 1: just started the book tour for her debut novel, Gone
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Speaker 1: Before Goodbye, and told the crowd on its first stop
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Speaker 1: how her personal life all led up to this moment.
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Speaker 1: She says, my entire creative career, I stepped into other
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Speaker 1: people's visions. There was already a book, or already a
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Speaker 1: movie or a director, and I'd come in and play
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Speaker 1: a part. So I thought, why can't I be part
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Speaker 1: of making a whole world. I know how to structure things,
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Speaker 1: I know how to get from the beginning to the
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Speaker 1: middle to the end. But it was a big leap
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Speaker 1: for me to jump in and go, Okay, I can't
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Speaker 1: just bow out because my part's done. That's Reese Wetherspoon
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Speaker 1: on deciding to co write her first novel, which is
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Speaker 1: about a surgeon, because she wanted to be one growing up.
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Speaker 1: Gone Before Goodbye is out. Now that's direct from Hollywood,