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"You cannot write if you are not angry."
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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
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"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."
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"I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write."
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"After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy."
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"When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs."
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"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."
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"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
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"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly."
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"You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."
Beginning
"Knock on the heart's emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you."
Heart
"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor."
Business
"You don't have to finish today, what is important is that you finish. But remember today might be the last day of your life."
Urgency
"Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home."
Faith
"If I can write, who possibly can't. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing."
Writing
"Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story."
Religion
"I don't look girls in the eyes, I am afraid to fall in love."
Love
"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."
Marriage
"What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy."
Battle
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