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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

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

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Elizabeth George

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

Elizabeth George

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

Elizabeth George

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

Elizabeth George

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.

Elizabeth George

I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

Elizabeth George

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

I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page every day, maybe 500 words. It could be about something I'm specifically worried about in the new novel; it could be a question I want answered; it could be something that's going on in my personal life. I just use it as an exercise.

Elizabeth George

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

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

Elizabeth George

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.

Elizabeth George

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

Elizabeth George

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

I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.

Elizabeth George