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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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Personal Development
"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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Personal Development
"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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Personal Development
"If you want to be happy, be."
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Personal Development
"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them."
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Personal Development
"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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"Myth is, after all, the neverending story."
Literature
"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."
Earth
"What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time."
Time
"I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant."
Hope
"As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones."
Writing
"Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life."
Life
"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."
Sea
"Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle."
Moon
"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."
Personal
"I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it."
Writing
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