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"Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet."
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"This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham."
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"The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies."
People

"I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk."
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"I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too."
Writing

"Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem."
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"Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice."
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"Max, if you survive your final test, can you steal me one of those magic outfits for me?" I'll try to get one for each of us. Hey! 'If'?"
Fantasy

"He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black."I prefer canine-American, said Total."
Humor

"Can I come in?No! I'm in a towel!I'm blind!"
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"Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too."
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"I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk..."
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"I was adored once too."
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"The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else."
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"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."
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"When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much."
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"When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present."
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"Every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?..."
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"I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade."
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"You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food."
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"Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind."
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