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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
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Reader
Touch
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I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
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Meant To Be
Seven
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What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
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Meant To Be
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Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.
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Quality
Children
Shows
Want
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Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
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Facility
Author
Important Part
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I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
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Accurate
Percent
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I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.
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Suffered
Voices
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I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
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Setting
Novels
Rendered
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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
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Catholic
Catholic School
School High School High
School High School First
Forest
Lake
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It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.
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Forgiveness
Grace
Healing
Maturity
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The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
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Location
Pacific
Extremely
Island
Northwest
Suited
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Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.
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Daughter
Events
Perseverance
Strong
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Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.
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Discipline
Passion
Taught
Both
Craft
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Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
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Catholic
Catholic School
School High School High
School High School First
Forest
Half Years
Lake
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I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.
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Frightening
Mastery
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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
Elizabeth George / Author
Critics
Decided
Good Me Will
Ages
Attempt
Pack
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
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Encouraging
Wisdom
Dying
Footsteps
Talent
Accept
Art Form
Writers
Follows
Published
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I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.
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Fascinating
Point Of View
Believes
Disconcerting
Frankly
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I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
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Dark
Dark Side
Extremity
Fascinating
Taboo
Interested
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I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.
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Motive
Start People See
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When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.
Elizabeth George / Author
Minimum
Pages
Me Day Start
Ski
Trip
Weekends
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I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.
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Experience Myself Always
Afterwards
Attempt
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Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.
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Logical
Plot
Sequence
Status Quo
Essentially
Incident
Initial
Quo
Status
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While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.
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Deals
Plot
Point Of View
Adolescent
Instrumental
Pov
Resolving
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Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
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Picture
Lots
Cover
In Other Words
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Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
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Start Always Me
Arc
Me Difficult Start
Plotting
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The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.
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Aspect
Atmosphere
Circumstances
Countryside
Crime
English Countryside
Offers
Personal Life
Tapestry
Life Great Character
Detective
Functions
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Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?
Elizabeth George / Author
Computer
Plot
Scary
Seeds
Typing
Wonder
Time Always Mind
Time Mind I Am
Mode
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I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page every day, maybe 500 words. It could be about something I'm specifically worried about in the new novel; it could be a question I want answered; it could be something that's going on in my personal life. I just use it as an exercise.
Elizabeth George / Author
Journal
Personal Life
Throat
Worried
Answered
Page
Specifically
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