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If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

~Beth Gutcheon

Topics: Better Deeply Going Immersed Interested Interesting Reader Spend Subject Three Two Years You

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I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

~Beth Gutcheon

Topics: Am Books Commercial Example Fiction For Example Interest Like Love Me Readers Smart Susan Them Who Women I Am I Love

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I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.

~Beth Gutcheon

Topics: Been Characters Closely Distance Emerges First Found Good Heroine Identify In The Past Learning Less Me More Myself Novel Past Person Protect She Story Techniques Them Try Ways

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I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

~Beth Gutcheon

Topics: Being Binds Books Children Community Consequence Fourth Interested Obvious People Six Think Together Very Which I Think

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I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

~Beth Gutcheon

Topics: Became Because Book Doing Get Love Never Read Research Reviewing Unless Writer I Love

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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