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It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

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I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.

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I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.

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For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

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I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

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As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.

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Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.

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Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

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I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

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I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 9th, 1955

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