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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"The most important thing in life is to know what you truly want. Then finding it is easy."
"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."
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"Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female."
"So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research."
"I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland."
"A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write."
"I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories."
"The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place."
"Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings."
"I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel."
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