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• This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a…
• After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework…
• Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and…
• A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me…
• It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.
• That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got…
• You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.
• Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.
• He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were…
• I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or…
• Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are…
• Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years…

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