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Mary Balogh Quotes

Everyone writes differently. I hope to get people energized so they'll want to rush home to write.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: welsh
Birth: March 24, 1944

Topics

Home Hope People Want Write Rush

I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how to deal with the darkness that seeps into their souls.

Michael Connelly

Good Darkness People Go Reason Out

I felt God's love, and that was a great gift.

Love God Great Gift Felt Great Gift

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Car People Me Stop Lights Gone

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

Problems Anxiety Hobby Create Crime

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.

Book Care Being Thick Wanted How

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.

Great Face Easy Things Would Did

People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They're more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more.

Goals Dreams People Financial Feel

I've got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in love with that.

Love Myself Stupid Feel Acting Way

I don't want to fight until I'm 40. I don't even know if I'll get to 35.

Fight Know Want Get Even Until

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

Myself Treat Rest Year Cheese Big

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

Christopher Lee

Great People Sadness Think Doing

Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

More Days Academics Becoming Much

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