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The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
- Elizabeth George
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#Novel
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Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
- Elizabeth George
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#High School
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I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.
- Elizabeth George
#Find
#Person
#Point
#Understand
#View
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
- Elizabeth George
#Job
#Novelist
#Reader
#Touch
I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
- Elizabeth George
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#Culture
#Get
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#Think
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
- Elizabeth George
#Critics
#Good
#Literature
#Me
#Will
Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?
- Elizabeth George
#I Am
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#Mind
#Seeds
#Time
While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.
- Elizabeth George
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#Whatever
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
- Elizabeth George
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#People
#Picture
#Words
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.
- Elizabeth George
#Events
#Grow
#Situation
#Status Quo
I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
- Elizabeth George
#First
#Forest
#High School
#High
#School
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.
- Elizabeth George
#Art
#Craft
#Discipline
#Passion
#Writing
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.
- Elizabeth George
#Character
#Countryside
#Great
#Life
I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
- Elizabeth George
#Age
#Meant To Be
#Meant
#Seven
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
- Elizabeth George
#Accept
#America
#Art
#Talent
#Wisdom
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