"I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11."

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"I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11."

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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Childhood, Friend, Story, Imagination, Trust

"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Childhood, Innocence, Fire, Nobility, Nature

"The great cathedral space which was childhood."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Childhood, Memory, Space, Cathedral

"To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience..."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Childhood, Sensation, Experience, Wonder

"All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

Childhood, Comfort, Nostalgia, Happiness

"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."

John Green, American Author

Childhood, Wind, Kids, Life, Learning

"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Childhood, Memory, Comfort, Storytelling

"And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown."

John Green, American Author

Childhood, Growth, Innocence, Maturity

"No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Childhood, Books, Imagination, Living

"I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Childhood, Fear, Animals, Courage

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Life

"I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with."

Life

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

Work

"I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes."

Experience

"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets."

Reviewers

"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed."

Money

"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."

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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."

"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."

"The great cathedral space which was childhood."

"To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience..."

"All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good."

"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."

"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

"And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown."

"No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book."

"I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you."

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"I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life."

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

"I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes."

"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets."

"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed."

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"I live and die with the Chicago Cubs."

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

"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."