“Every time I finish these emotionally honest books, I free a piece of Little Jessie…” (herself)
“The Pretender will be my twenty-first novel, so you’d think I’d have things figured out by now, and I do when it comes to the mechanics of it. My experience, though, has been that writing’s always hard, and my fears grow to fit the space I give them.”
“So when I say I have something that works despite, know that I’m not just blowing smoke. I’m coming at you from the trenches. Here it is, my miracle cure for don’t-writis: freewalking.”
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