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To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
Louise Penny
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Louise Penny
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 1
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City of Toronto
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I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.
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Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?
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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
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Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.
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No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.
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The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.
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I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.
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Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable, said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, Emerson. Lake and Palmer? Ralph and Waldo.
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Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make
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Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.
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Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
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Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
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Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.
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The night is a strawberry.
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Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.
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Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
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Things are strongest where they're broken.
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I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.
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