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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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"Romance is everything."
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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
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"I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them."
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"Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else."
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"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
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"I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming."
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"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."
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"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."
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"Romance is mush, stifling those who strive."
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"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."
Success
"Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs."
Needs
"I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block."
Writing
"I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years."
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"I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years."
Identity
"What sustains me is to be with my family and to write."
Family
"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
"What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time."
Time
"I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer."
Writing
"I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts."
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