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" I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. "

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" I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. "

" I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss? "

" I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life. "

" I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. "

" After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. "

" I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. "

" I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned. "

" Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by. "

" I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing. "

" I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. "

" I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them. "

" Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head. "

" All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are. "

" I can't really work on more than one thing at a time. "

" I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working. "

" Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. "

" I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told. "

" Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! "

" Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. "

" I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled. "

" I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real? "

" I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay. "

" I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.' "

" Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help. "