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Stanley Victor Paskavich

"You'll never see my books on Vanity Fair I'm not the type of author they would want there."

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Akiroq Brost

"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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Akiroq Brost

"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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"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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Akiroq Brost

"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."

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"We do not write because we want to, we write because we have to."

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"The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy."

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Stanley Victor Paskavich
"Take a giant drink of natures endless stream let it spout from your mouth in words so serene."

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Stanley Victor Paskavich
"Yes I'm Bipolar but I'm as normal as you except the times when my mind thinks like two."

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Stanley Victor Paskavich
"Substance of your belief has nothing to do with the size of the book you use or how often you open it."

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"If you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass."

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"I just tripped over a pair of shoes and almost fell down and broke my neck and no I wasn't wearing them."

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"You can't put a price on fun, it's always priceless."

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"Love is only a one syllable word but it's the most powerful one mankind's ever heard."

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"Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there."

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"When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips."

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"I guess the all and all answer in life is what Facades you want to believe in the most."

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