"I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career."

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"I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career."

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"When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94."

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"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it."

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"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all."

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"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children."

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Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends."

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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A father gives his child nothing better than a good education."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds."

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"Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women."

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"Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story."

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"I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started."

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"I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft."

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"I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email."

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"I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word."

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"Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other."

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"The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character."

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