- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
- Nov 07, 2020
For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All I could do was read, listen to my mother's stories about the Sandovals, and daydream: a return to self. My writing career had begun.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020