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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny?
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's life. What a cast of characters! And what a pleasure to recreate them upon the page!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one?
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie?
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of time, and I'm always surprised by things that happen in my books.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020