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People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.
Megan Chance
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I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.
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I love what I call re-imagining, where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way. It's not the most efficient way to write a book, but it's how I find the story.
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I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which I follow quite sternly...for a good long while. Then it turns out in some way to be insurmountably wrong and I am forced to re-think every component. Usually at this point I throw hundreds of pages away.
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Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.
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Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
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I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.
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The material world is simply an expression of the mind that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?
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It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.
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Andrée De Jongh story led me to other stories of women who joined the Resistance in France. I found literally dozens of memoirs written by women who had become spies and couriers and helped to create the escape network. These women were like action-star heroes.
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The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.
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Logic only tells us what's there it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.
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Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?
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You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.
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The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.
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I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.
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