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God is a name we give to love.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
God
Giving
Names
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Not Interested
Beliefs
Forcing
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Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
New York
Stranger
Welcome
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Love Me Boring
Explained
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It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Destiny
Fate
Luck
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New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
New York
Ideas
People
Thirteen
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I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Hills
Setting
Drives
Flint
Plains
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New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
New York
Cities
Streets
World
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Eager
Roomful
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History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
History
Events
Lying
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If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Dream
Commitment
Writing
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Thirty
Love Family Know
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Periods
Overcome
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Telling The Truth
Bred
Closer
Wanting
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I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Courteous
Generous
People Know Want
Cowboys
Funniest
Large
Smartest
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
New York City
Prairie
Village
Village City Live
Everybody Else
Same Thing
Suburb
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I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Classic
Marie
Covers
Latest
Publisher
Puts
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It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Book
Children
Grateful
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Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Dating
Attorney
County
Florida
Marie
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Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Movie Star
Real Life
Every Chance
Near
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You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Have Faith
Law
Writing
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Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Branches
Cracks
Disappear
Florida
Frogs
Insects
Poisonous
Spread
Climb
Feast
People Real Will
Trees
Whose
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Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.
Nancy Pickard / Novelist
Angel
Believe
Religious
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