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Lisa Kleypas Quotes

I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Education Dreams Women College Way

When things are going bad, there's going to be some good that's going to come from it.

Good Bad Things Going Come Some

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

Responsibility Me Story Connections

'Shotgun Stories' and 'Take Shelter'... I was willing to make those with no money and no time. With 'Mud,' I just wanted to protect it until I could have the resources. It's a real tricky movie.

Time Money Protect Mud Resources

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.

Creative Value Writing Believe Human

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

Treasure Been Before Every Public

Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Food Fashion Small End Famous High

'Humans' seems to have gone down really well in the U.S. That doesn't happen for British TV drama - unless we're talking 'Downton Abbey.'

Talking Down Drama Happen Gone Well

It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.

Me Book Point Off Nine Takes

I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.

Romantic Movies Like

The media attention - the negative, in particular - it makes you a different person.

Negative Media Attention You Person

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Women Old Seek Should Old Women

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Arthur Henderson

History Influence Will Whatever Fail

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