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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of... →
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery... →
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends.
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.
I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.
I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.
If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.
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