"The first draft of a story is the…" — Bruce Coville
"The first draft of a story is the writer's clay."
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11 Quotes by Bruce Coville
Bruce Coville has 11 quotes on this site.
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All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want…
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Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain…
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If you don’t jump, the wings never come.
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There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people…
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I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.
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Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
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The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and…
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Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.
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Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
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Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any…
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More Clay Quotes
This quote is filed under Clay Quotes,
one of 325 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
— John Henrik Clarke
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand,…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially…
— Unknown Author
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want,…
— Esther Hicks
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Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.
— Shailene Woodley
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We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay…
— Janet Morris
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Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like…
— Jean Anouilh
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race,…
— Aristophanes
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[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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