"The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it."

Writing, Struggle, Truth, Passion

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"The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it."

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"Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes."

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"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."

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"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."

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"Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real."

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"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."

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"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."

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"In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all."

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"Breathing dreams like air."

Inspirational

"She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well."

Grief

"Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty."

Vanity

"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."

Emotion

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

Alcohol

"Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor."

Psychology

"I found something! Courage--just that, courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always."

Courage

"They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine."

Illusion

"If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."

Self-Care

"By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish."

Gender