"To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category."

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Jillian Medoff

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“It thrills observers and makes the wearer feel a million dollars.”
“None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.”
“It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.”
“Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."”
“I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.”
“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
“Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.”
“There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that”

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