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"You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something."
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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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"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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"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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"You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something."
Writing
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
Being
"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
Fire
"Love doesn't make the word go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Love
"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water."
Language
"All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day."
Woman
"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."
Job
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
Family
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."
Friendship
"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
Experience
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