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I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

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I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses, how dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what's funny, how to build distinctive and original characters - all the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

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People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

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But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible

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Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

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The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.

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A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.

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My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

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I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

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The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

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I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

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Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

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But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

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Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

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And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

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The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

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I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.

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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

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I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

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If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

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