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" I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us. "

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" We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. "

" The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice. "

" I owe thanks to a thoughtful, sophisticated readership hungry for challenging subject matter, for honest portrayals of parenthood, and for fiction whose meaning is neither obvious nor morally pat. "

" Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities. "

" Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve. "

" Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. "

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" The financial industry may not be synonymous with economics, but it does control a large enough sector of the global economy to sink us all, as was unnervingly demonstrated in 2008. "

" Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one. "

" In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized. "

" The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture at which to celebrate the miraculous power - not of film but of fiction. Lo, I have created a monster. "

" Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review. "

" I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is not a bad thing. "

" When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary. "

" By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress. "

" Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power. "

" Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that you're rarely aware as they purl by that the sentences are so pretty. More concerned with what is put than how it is put, she also understood that you only say anything at all when you say it well. "

" In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so. "

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" When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but clearly labelled as an author the literary establishment is free to dismiss. "

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" Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling. "

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" Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something. "

" The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church and resented being forced to recite the Apostle's Creed, mumbling, 'I believe... ' when I didn't. "