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" All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy. "
My Life
Life
Working
" All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that. "
Own
Truth
Understand
" Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving. "
Love
Driving
Worry
" Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults. "
Everything
Lucky
Book
" Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink. "
Book
Chance
Sun
" I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way. "
Say
Writing
Book
" I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power. "
I Believe
Love
Believe
" If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions. "
Dreams
Big
Important
" I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them. "
Books
Am
About
" In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen. "
Always
Now
Recipe
" I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods. "
Own
History
Character
" It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant. "
Love
Want
Nature
" I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives! "
Girl
God
Start
" I've never met a popcorn ball I didn't like. "
Like
Popcorn
Never
" I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for. "
Ideas
Beginning
Book
" I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods. "
Been
Eat
Nuclear
" I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call. "
Good
Great
Moment
" Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays. "
Parents
Abundance
Holidays
" My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer. "
Write
Dream
Book
" My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California. "
California
Memorable
Rich
" Often, marriage was solitude, with company. "
Company
Marriage
Solitude
" One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library. "
Most
Been
Library
" Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight. "
Bad
Sometimes
Good
" 'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby. "
Boy
Baby
Nature
" To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description. "
Feeling
Down
Me
" When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret. "
Home
Living
Look
" When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness. "
You
End
Go
" When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That's the way it is. That's the design. "
Joy
Risks
Moments
" Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write. "
Books
Finding
Write
" You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear. "
Book
You
Will
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