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Paula Danziger

"I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them."

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"I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."

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"My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel."

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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

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"I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that."

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"I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished."

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Amber Hurdle

"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."

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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

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"My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood."
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"I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny."
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"None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings."
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"I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues."
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"When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book."
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"I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next."
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"I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do."
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"I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes."
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"I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful."
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"In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books."
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