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" I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller. "
Isabel Gillies
Library
Career
Just
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" Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure. "
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" I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager. "
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" In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare. "
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" It's not easy to slather your face with oil. It requires a little bit of work to smooth it on and rub it in. You become more familiar with the feel of your own skin and face. "
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" I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing. "
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Loved
Love
Time
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Inspire
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" I am not a writer, but I have been told I write good emails. "
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Write
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" Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.' "
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" When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together. "
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Light
Day
Work
" Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak. "
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Life
Heartbreak
Help
" I think even if you haven't been divorced, you can hopefully relate to having to navigate through a really difficult time and see how you can get through to the other side and how you can stay positive, even if there's some really bad stuff happening. "
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" I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head. "
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Go
Different
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Broken
Broken Heart
Heart
" I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. "
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College
Kid
Think
" When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day. "
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Day
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