"All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school."

-- Patricia Reilly Giff

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“Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.”
“In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free”
“The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.”
“Yes, I am very prolific.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Man on the Bridge; Leconte Balances Classic and Contemporary with 'Widow'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. February 28, 2001.
“I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.”
“I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.”
“Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.”
“Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the survivors into slavery, where they duly perished, so that today not a trace remains of what was previously a community with dominion over an area of some thirty leagues.”

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