- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a terrible job. I've been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are, and I haven't done them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe I can solve others' problems. It's great when it works, but for the most part, it's very unappealing.
- Officer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a police officer in Los Angeles.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
- Closeness
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- Nov 07, 2020
My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven, but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help, I would be there for them.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been shown so much kindness in my life, so for me to write books about good, kind people seems completely natural.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in another family, and it's not your choice, and you can't get out.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.
- Novels
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think someone gets stitches in all my novels.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows cracked while they went to the grocery store.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully, every time, you raise the bar.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020