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"I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation."
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"When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books."
Books
"Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language."
Music
"Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them."
Character
"I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation."
Death
"New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications."
Nation
"When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss."
Friendship
"They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people."
Experience
"I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child."
Time
"There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters."
Life
"I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me."
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"
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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
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"It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality."
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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."
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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."
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"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."
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"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""
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"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."
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"Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces."
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