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" Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea. "
Jean Hanff Korelitz
You
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Idea
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" The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't. "
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" To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out. "
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" I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men. "
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" Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose. "
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" I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces. "
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" I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University. "
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" A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers. "
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" People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up. "
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" Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care. "
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" Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe. "
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" The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer. "
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" Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound. "
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" My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel. "
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" I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither. "
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" When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next. "
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" Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration. "
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" I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up. "
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" As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have. "
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" A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive. "
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