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I never, ever talk about writing to anyone at all.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

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Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.

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Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.

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Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

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Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Classroom Deeper Feeding Forever Further Go Just One Way Reading School Smart Stay Takes Us Way

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Sometimes a book I'm reading is so terrific that when I finish, I simply turn back to page one and start all over again to see what I've missed, to experience it again, more deeply, or because I don't want to let it go.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Again Back Because Book Deeply Experience Finish Go Missed More Over Page Reading See Simply Sometimes Start Terrific Turn Want

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My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

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Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

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My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Action Any Barney Class Couple Father-In-Law Few France French Had Hiding Himself His Inspired Me Memorizing Months Off Ordeal Out Pass Spent Started Taking Until Words

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I read many riveting escape-and-evade accounts of airmen and of the Resistance networks organized to hide them and then send them on grueling treks across the Pyrenees to safety. But it was the people I met in France and Belgium who made the period come alive for me. They had lived it.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: May 1st, 1940

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