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"Writers speak stench."
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"You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!."
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"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."
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"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
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"We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations."
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"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer."
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"Writing is the supreme solace."
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"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."
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"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
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"Pour your heart onto the page."
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"You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
Beginning
"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
Beginning
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Beauty
"Evil is whatever distracts."
Evil
"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms."
Life
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
Independence
"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."
Bible
"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."
Truth
"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
Evil
"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."
Nature
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