A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
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I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.
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I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.
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I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.
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I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!
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I started writing stories as a child.
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I studied literature design and fashion design.
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I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.
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I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
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I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
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I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
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If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
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In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
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It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.
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My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.
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My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
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People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
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Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down.
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The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.
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