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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020