"I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'."

-- Tracy Chevalier

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“I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.”
“I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.”

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“Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go.”
“our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.”
“Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.”
“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”
“Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and youâ€™re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.”
“I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.”

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