Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsenis an American novelist and retired physician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 June 1953
CountryUnited States of America
barbara larry life says throughout
'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.
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I think of all media, television is the most powerful when it comes to selling books, because when you have a feature film, yeah, there's a rush. But then after that month is over and the movie goes out of release, that's it.
bizarre major sorts
I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.
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In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living.
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Id always written, Id been writing stories since I was a child,
deeply premise strongest
My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.
bound mom needle since stories wrote
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
coming life love priest
Isles love life is stalled right now, ... But I think the priest is coming back.
finds measure work writers
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
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Writing is hard for me, ... every critic and reader in the world is looking over my shoulder and shaking their heads about how bad that last sentence turned out.
familiar filled ghosts head hidden immigrant monks stories
My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' was a very familiar one.
forgotten
Only the forgotten are truly dead.
childhood library becoming
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!
christmas offering light
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.