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"And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms."
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"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"
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"The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember."
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"Don't follow the crowd; create your own path."
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"And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms."
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"Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live."
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"I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes."
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"She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch."
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"A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still."
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"Society destroys your individuality, your soul."
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"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
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"She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be."
Relationship
"Rekindled love is generally short-term."
Love
"To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was."
Work
"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
Reading
"A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1."
Writing
"I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns."
Life
"Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever."
Business
"I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone."
Writing
"I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
Nature
"He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best."
Relationship
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