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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
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"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."
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"If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?"
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"Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date."
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"You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do."
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"Romance is everything."
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"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes."
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"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."
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"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."
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"I left her in the forest of Arden, I shall find her in an orchard in Verona."
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"When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars."
Time
"The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer."
Work
"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."
World
"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."
Society
"My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area."
Family
"Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together."
Time
"Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it."
Writing
"I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years."
Identity
"I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute."
Law
"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."
Freedom
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