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Tess Gerritsen Quotes

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four pages a day, which usually yields a first draft in six months. I don't plot ahead of time, so I'm flying by the seat of my pants for the first draft.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 12, 1953

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Time Day Flying Ahead Try First

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

Best Me Growing Up Gift Jazz Silver

I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I am now never in Russia; I am Austrian citizen. But definitely I am Latin!

Music Cute I Am Voice Citizen Never

My dad wasn't the best speaker like a Bill Clinton, or a Henry Kissinger, but he had character.

Character Best Like Bill Clinton He

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

Michael Morpurgo

Good Focus War Suffering Right Goes

As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families.

Children Parents World Peaceful Goal

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Literature Masterpiece Out Dictionary

I have to respect my opponent, always, doesn't matter who he is, but I'll get in there and win. That's a fact.

Respect Win Matter Opponent Always

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

Greatness Republican FDR Presidential

My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.

Life Children Myself Struggle Hotel

Dress how you're comfortable. Wear the makeup that you're comfortable in - or don't wear it.

Dress Makeup You Comfortable Wear

The leadership of Christine Rampone goes without saying. She is the definition of a what a leader is.

Leadership Leader Saying She Without

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Success Government Intention First

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