I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known. Kristin Hannah More Quotes by Kristin Hannah More Quotes From Kristin Hannah Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I'll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire. Kristin Hannah writing book thinking Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free. Kristin Hannah it-hurts hurt sometimes Sometimes holding on was all you could do. Kristin Hannah holding-on sometimes Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on. Kristin Hannah and-love parent strong Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them. Kristin Hannah play writing thinking The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives. Kristin Hannah hallmark book Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter. Kristin Hannah daughter mother writing The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet...He closed his eyes...And still it was quiet, this falling apart of his life, as silent as the last beat of an old man's heart. A quiet, echoing thud, and then...nothing. Kristin Hannah eye heart fall We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid. Kristin Hannah glue giving-up important When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather. Kristin Hannah mom doors weather She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt. Kristin Hannah scabs hurt children I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror. Kristin Hannah fear country children A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship. Kristin Hannah falling-in-love caring mother I am such a Pacific Northwest girl. Kristin Hannah pacific pacific-northwest girl I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing. Kristin Hannah ocd writing littles Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice. Kristin Hannah choices sitting waiting She waited for you in a thousand different ways. Kristin Hannah different thousand way It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care. Kristin Hannah track taken years Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever. Kristin Hannah girlfriend guy forever Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better. Kristin Hannah hard-times fighting love
