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"If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin."
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"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."
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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
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"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."
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"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."
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"It is the most fun I'm ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there's nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it. It's the greatest peace when I'm in a scene, and it's just me and the character, that's it, that's where I want to live my life."
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"The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror."
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"Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write."
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"Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind."
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"There is no great writing, only great rewriting."
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"There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know."
Man
"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience."
Conscience
"I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of."
Time
"If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin."
Writing
"I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons."
Poetry
"I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real."
People
"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow."
Consciousness
"All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side."
Beauty
"If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed."
Writing
"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."
Leadership
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