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I have more freedom when I wri...

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

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I am an American citizen and i...

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

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If this world is going to be a...

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

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Women have always been courage...

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

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The fact that I am a writer co...

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

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My female protagonist will not...

My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.

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I'm an expert. I can kill anyb...

I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.

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In 2011, I announced that I wa...

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.

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I carry around a little stool ...

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

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I'm surrounded by young people...

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

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I met a guy, very exotic to me...

I met a guy, very exotic to me - he was blonde with blue eyes - and I just had a fling that turned out to be love. I moved to San Francisco to spend a week with him and get him out of my system; I'm still here 26 years later.

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I'm not a fan of mysteries, so...

I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. ... And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark; there's no redemption there.

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I went to a mystery writers co...

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

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I'm always following the chara...

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.

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If you write nonfiction, a his...

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.

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Now of course we have Black hi...

Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.

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We have all the technology to ...

We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we have cellular phones or video cameras, and we are filming in the streets what's going on. We have the voices of everybody recorded. There's too much recording and I think that's wonderful.

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The first few months of my lif...

The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write.

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Having a point to start is imp...

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.

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When I fall in love I'm obsess...

When I fall in love I'm obsessed.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....