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" Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things. "

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" I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any other term - an airhead of the first degree. "

" I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. "

" Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about. "

" In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition. "

" In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came. "

" I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives. "

" I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures. "

" I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way. "

" I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet. "

" It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol. "

" I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings. "

" Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. "

" I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history. "

" I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history. "

" I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships. "

" I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it. "

" I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! "

" I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing. "

" I came from a home where everybody had a book. "

" I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted. "

" Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers. "

" With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots. "

" To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows. "

" My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana. "

" Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected. "

" I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church. "