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People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

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It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

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I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

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Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

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I write what I'm interested in.

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I write a thousand words a day.

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I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

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My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

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But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

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But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 18th, 1955

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