Don't write about what you ...

Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
 Tracy Chevalier

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I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.
 Tracy Chevalier
The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
 Tracy Chevalier
Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.
 Tracy Chevalier