28 Quotes by Claire Cameron

The black dog is making war.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the survival, the only meaning.The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder.

Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body arent always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book.

I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.

I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened?