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"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

"If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?"

"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
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"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."

"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."

"When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer."

"I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged."

"What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time."

"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."
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