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In no other country do you have that opportunity. It's not to say that everything will happen fairly and the way that you want.
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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
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I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
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I still have to think about that over and over again, with everything I do in life. It's so easy to get derailed by success.
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I wanted to see where she had lived, I wanted to see the family members that had raised her, the daughters she had left behind. The daughters could have been me, or I could have been them.
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To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, 'What will people think of me for writing something like this?'
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I could already see how people were treating me differently. That's the scary thing.
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