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"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
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"I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother."
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"We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now."
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"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."
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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
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"I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem."
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"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write."
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"Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it."
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"The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now."
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"It was the most romantic plane ever made."
Aviation
"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."
Success
"Culture clash is terrific drama."
Cultural
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
Woman
"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."
Movies
"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."
People
"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."
War
"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
Now
"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'"
Character
"The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century."
Writing
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