The human animal only sees what it wants to see. Marcia Muller More Quotes by Marcia Muller More Quotes From Marcia Muller She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm. Marcia Muller mom mother children every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. Marcia Muller differences painful death I don't walk the mean streets. Marcia Muller walk streets mean The 1890s was a decade when life began to change in urban America. Modern conveniences that we now take for granted came into use; women's roles became less restrictive; and San Francisco, a port city with influences from all over the world, was a lively place in which to reside. Marcia Muller city women change life We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives. Marcia Muller more wish giving interesting Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons. Marcia Muller myself flying research easy As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures. Marcia Muller room small me awkward About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive. Marcia Muller legal friends effort world Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever. Marcia Muller teachers lady women mystery Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn't ring true. So I thought, 'Well, there's an opening here for something.' Marcia Muller true thought green men It's very hard to get one publisher to accept an author going over to the other author's company to collaborate. Marcia Muller over accept company hard I actually feel, when I get to about page 200, that it's going to be a book after all! It never gets easier - when you conquer one problem, another one rises up to take its place. Marcia Muller feel place you book We have a cottage on the Mendocino coast. Marcia Muller cottage coast I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction. Marcia Muller never things good people
