All Quotes By Tag: Author
“I doubt I was much of a storyteller, but I would have put that smile in my book. On page 104, right next to the image of the Ward. I would have written it on my heart. I would have proofread it a thousand times under a thousand moons until a thousand tears thoroughly rationalized what it meant to me. Each time for when I’d met the darkness, and then succumbed. The smile read “you can’t break me’”—bold and in italics.”
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“The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher.They all hearThe speaking of the Tree.They hear the first and last of every TreeSpeak to humankind today. Come to me, here beside the River.Plant yourself beside the River.”
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“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.”
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“The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.”
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“When you write, you are telling a story…to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself…over and over again.”
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“If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.”
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“I’m not trying to please anyone. I’m just trying to write a damn book.”
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“Divinely Fabulous Inside & Out!”
“Inspiration comes from living it.”
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“Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.”
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“Ending a series is a difficult one …….where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that.”
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“But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?” “I’ll make time,” I promised. “The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I’ll sing to them while I work.”
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“You can have practically anything you want in this world, if you have great credit.”
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“Cowards say it can’t be done, critics say it shouldn’t have been done, creator say well done.”
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