They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there...

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there...

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book....

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book....

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it...

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it...

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this...

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this...

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I...

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I...

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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working,...

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned...

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's...

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's...

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school...

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school...

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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the...

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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write,...

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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art...

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in,...

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in,...

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

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Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism,...

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know...

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know...

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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully,...

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

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

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful....

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful....