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"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
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"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"
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"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."
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"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."
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"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."
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"She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave her inspiration. However her heart lacked the will as the empty words enclosed her soul pulling it down towards the frenzied ravenous imps that stalked hells pantry...."
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"Creativity is like the ocean: sometimes it is an unstoppable wave bursting forth, crashing onto the shore, and overwhelmingly flowing with no hope of restraint; other times it is completely still, lingering aimlessly and endlessly, seemingly devoid of any inspiration."
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"Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness."
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"A good imitation is the most perfect originality."
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"I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im."
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"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"
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"I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom."
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"Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in."
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"I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis."
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"There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before."
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"There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo."
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"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."
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"I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me."
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"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
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"I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto."
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"Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to."
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