I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time. Mary Balogh More Quotes by Mary Balogh More Quotes From Mary Balogh But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of? Mary Balogh dream want needs Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing. Mary Balogh blessing sometimes memories And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love. Mary Balogh real heart world Why do I want to run from happiness? Mary Balogh want running Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is. Mary Balogh judging doe Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived. Mary Balogh betrayed forever morning Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything. Mary Balogh enough sometimes There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason? Mary Balogh devil reason reason-why And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language Mary Balogh breathing shade language I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have. Mary Balogh lifetime Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was. Mary Balogh make-sense worthy I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it! Mary Balogh think voice book world Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan! Mary Balogh never success writing book I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book. Mary Balogh challenge i-am sometimes character I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for? Mary Balogh doing always awards love I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control. Mary Balogh i-am feel best job I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles. Mary Balogh myself music sweet romantic I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses. Mary Balogh feel good me time It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way. Mary Balogh never you success way I have people introducing themselves to me: 'I am your publicist; what can I do for you?' But I have never learned how to use a publicist. Mary Balogh i-am me you people
