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No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything…
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So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and…
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Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler…
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What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But…
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It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to
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Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to…
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I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in…
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I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.
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I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.
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If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.
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People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.
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From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended…
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Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon…
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In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection.…
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History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules,…
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The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this…
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I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems…
— Robin McKinley
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While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early…
— Charles Frazier
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After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff…
— Tad Williams
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But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every…
— Steven Tyler
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Folktales are real.
— Italo Calvino
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