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• Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

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• Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

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• You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you’re writing stuff that you know nobody’s going to care about then you should rethink what you’re doing!

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• With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

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• There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you’re born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I’m very much an American – my books tend to be about American things, but inside there’s that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

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• I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

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• When I was growing up, ‘Anna Karenina’ was one of my favourite books.

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• I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn’t born into it.

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Paullina Simons (8)

Birth:	1963
Nationality:	American, Russian
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Simons dreamed of becoming a writer as a child in Leningrad. At the age of ten, she moved with her family to the United States, and completed an early attempt at writing when she was 12, in English. Simons attended colleges in New York, Kansas and England, graduating from Kansas University with a degree in political science. She worked as a financial journalist on the Financial News Network, and translator among other various jobs before Tully, her first novel, was written and released.

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