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"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
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"I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down."
Writing
"Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing."
Writing
"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."
Books
"I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres."
Reading
"I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started."
Hope
"I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere."
Road
"Men didn't respect beauty...they used it."
Society
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
Motivation
"I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away."
Life
"That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea."
Humor
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Expectations create and shape reality."
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"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."
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"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
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"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
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"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
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"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."
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"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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