"When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process."

Family, Self

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"When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

Family, Brother

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Up, Believe

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Children are angels."

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Family, Rules, Rebellion, Youth, Identity

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"I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth."

Romantic, Romance, Truth, Fantasy

"My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly."

Work, Style, Writing

"Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed."

Athletes, Day, Effort, Practice

"India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country."

History, Country, Old, Past

"Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better."

People, Superiority, Thinking

"Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book."

Motivational, Motivation, Disappointment, Feeling

"The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past."

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"Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy."

Love, First, Mind, School

"People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way."

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"When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process."

Family, Self