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"I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming."
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"In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."
"She wanted her life back and that was mainly because of Vadim. She was a man she didn't want to leave. Even if her first instinct had been to flee, the time for running was over. She wouldn't live in fear forever."
"If your eyes and mind can SEE IT, the body does not require external motivation to get motivated."
"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
"There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler."
"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
"It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you " it must be deliberate."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction."
"I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all."
"It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you."
"I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them."
"Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head."
"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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