"Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing……" — Barbara Mertz
"Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me."
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63 Quotes by Barbara Mertz
Barbara Mertz has 63 quotes on this site.
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Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the…
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it,…
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to -…
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into…
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and,…
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous…
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception…
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time…
— Amby Burfoot
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Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness…
— Friedrich Ratzel
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The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in…
— Gunnar Myrdal
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...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme…
— Don Kates
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Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor,…
— Pope Francis
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they…
— David Ricardo
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
— Helen Vendler
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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without…
— Paul Sarbanes
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It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony…
— Andrew Jackson
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