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Nancy Pickard, born in September 1945, is a renowned American novelist known for her suspense and crime novels. Her works have won wide acclaim for their intricate plots and complex character development.

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Famous Nancy Pickard Quotes

“Every history book, no matter how ostensibly objective, is basically lies filtered through bias and a certain amount of relative ignorance.”

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Book:Bum Steer

Source: Bum Steer

“...Marshall Field's Department Store....I spent - in more ways than one - the afternoon shipping in the vast and famous old store downtown....And then I had them mail a catalog home, too, jus tin case I'd missed something.”

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Book:Bum Steer

Source: Bum Steer

“He didn't move back to allow me to walk by him, and so I had to brush heavily against him on my way out the door. I felt as if my body were metal to his magnet, and I had literally to pull away from him.”

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Book:Bum Steer

Source: Bum Steer

“...tall women of Swedish descent attract attention that's way out of proportion to our relative importance to the world.”

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Book:Bum Steer

Source: Bum Steer

“His car....had the black-tinted windows I usually associated with south Florida or drug dealers. Or is that redundant?”

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Book:Bum Steer

Source: Bum Steer

“History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.”

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Author:Nancy Pickard

“It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.”

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Book:Marriage Is Murder

Source: Marriage Is Murder

“God is a name we give to love.”

Giving God Names God Love

Book:Storm warnings

Source: Storm warnings

“New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.”

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Book:But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

Source: But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

“New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.”

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Book:But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

Source: But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

“Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.”

New York Stranger Welcome

Author:Nancy Pickard

“Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.”

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Author:Nancy Pickard

“It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.”

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Author:Nancy Pickard

“If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.”

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Author:Nancy Pickard

“You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time.”

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Author:Nancy Pickard

About the Author

Born: September 19, 1945
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 15

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