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We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

- Kim Edwards
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Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west of the Allegheny Mountains, and several multinational companies; people come and go from all over the world.

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

It's kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I'll make a note about it. I may even write a few pages about it, and then I'll put it aside, but I'll sort of keep it in mind. Then as time goes on, other things will gather to it as if it's a magnet, almost, and eventually, there's enough to make the story.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

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We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

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We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.