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"I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."

"There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our embarrassments, our sulks, our envy, our feelings of guilt, these phenomena are conveyed in Austen in a way that affords us bursts of almost magical self-recognition. The author has located words to depict a situation we thought ourselves alone in feeling, and for a few moments, we see ourselves more clearly and wish to become whom the author would have wanted us to be."

"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."

"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."

"These fragments I have shored against my ruins."

"The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten."

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."

"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."

"I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific."
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"I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?"


"Sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!"


"It's the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It's the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible and he loves me anyway."


"To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded loaf after plastic white bread. (I don't mean to be rude about Josh. And I didn't realize it at the time. But it is. He is. Plastic white bread.)"


"Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury."


"We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed."
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