If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. … - Jillian Medoff

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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

Jillian Medoff

If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spend her life with? I've read that story a million times, but a stepmother deciding which of her children she'll save in a freak accident? Now that's a challenge.

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My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.

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Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.

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There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That desire, that need, is as palpable and relentless as any junkie's craving, and will possess me all day until I can park myself in a chair and do my work.

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My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

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To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

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