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"You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!."
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"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."
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"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
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"We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations."
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"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer."
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"Writing is the supreme solace."
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"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."
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"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
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"Pour your heart onto the page."
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"You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough."
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"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."
Thought
"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature."
Love
"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
History
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
Love
"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."
Life
"A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants."
World
"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."
Man
"Music is only love looking for words."
Love
"Our inventions mirror our secret wishes."
Innovation
"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything."
Time
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