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I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.
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Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.
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Forgiveness is better than revenge.
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I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
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You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Fiction writing feels more honest to me.
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Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.
