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Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!
Mary Doria Russell
The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.
Mary Doria Russell
If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.
Mary Doria Russell
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
Mary Doria Russell
How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?
Mary Doria Russell
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.
Mary Doria Russell
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.
Mary Doria Russell
... I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
Mary Doria Russell
One minute, she was in the State of Puerto Rico and the next minute, she was in the State of Persistent Vegetables.
Mary Doria Russell
In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.
Mary Doria Russell
Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.
Mary Doria Russell
Who doesn't love a makeover? Even my husband watches 'What Not To Wear.'
Mary Doria Russell
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
Mary Doria Russell
Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
Mary Doria Russell
When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.
Mary Doria Russell
Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters.
Mary Doria Russell
