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"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
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"She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all."
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"We tend to live up to our expectations."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
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"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."
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"They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up."
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"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."
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"Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women."
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"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."
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"Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story."
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"Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters."
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"I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started."
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"I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft."
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"I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email."
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"I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word."
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"Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other."
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"The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character."
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