Susanna Kearsley Quotes
Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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Do not spoil the wonder with haste!
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I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
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People make me feel like I have a problem because I haven't had a kid yet.
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I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
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The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
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Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
