Ann Maxwell Quotes
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I have always loved the wild places between the Sierra Nevada range and the Rocky Mountains. The east face of the Sierra Nevada is steep and largely unknown, a wonderful setting.
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Love is itself an expression of strength.
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I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.
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My daughter loves romances. She's a Ph.D student at George Washington University, and when my first book without a clinch cover came out, she said to me: 'Finally, a book I can read on the Metro.'
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Traditionally in crime fiction, women exist as a bedroom convenience or to screw up in order that the plot may progress. I wanted no part of that.
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The wonderful thing about romance is that there are so many flavors of it!
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I've always been one of those people who wondered 'What if...'
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Not only is it OK for a woman to write about a tough guy, but it might even help sell him.
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You love each book. They're your children.
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The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.
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I'm a great believer in possibilities.
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Having a Weim means never having to work alone again. I have two Weims. When they think I've been working too long, they stage an intercession.
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Fiddler is keenly aware that justice and law don't necessarily equate.
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The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.
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If Nora Roberts were a man, she'd be on the cover of big business magazines as the next Charles Dickens.
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You can only write your own vision.
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As science-fiction was what I read in college, it was natural that I should be tempted to write it. So I did, and continued to do so, even while I was co-authoring mysteries with my husband Evan.
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I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.
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When we moved to Laguna Niguel, there was one four-way stop sign between the freeway and PCH.
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Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them.