Tamora Pierce Quotes

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• Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
• Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.
• Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when…
• Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.
• Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write…
• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
• Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
• I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
• If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
• One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
• With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
• You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as…
• After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one…
• I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and…
• I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling…
• I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to…
• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking.…
• If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out…
• Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them…

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