"My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework."

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"My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework."

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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

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"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."

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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

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"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work."

Work

"I live and die with the Chicago Cubs."

Identity

"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are."

Publishing

"In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women."

Man

"I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book."

Thought

"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon."

Possibility

"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming."

Friendship

"Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior."

Pets

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Nation

"It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating."

Persistence