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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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"Ritual is necessary for us to know anything."
Writing
"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case."
People
"I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be."
Memory
"To hell with facts! We need stories!"
Hell
"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."
Lie
"There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma."
People
"The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit."
Spirit
"If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?"
Conservative
"The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental."
Fun
"The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high."
Society
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