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- Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the…
- It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
- I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
- Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the…
- I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life…
- It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.
- Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or…
- Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
- People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in…
- The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in…
- It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
- Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in…
- There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
- I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon…
- It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a…
- The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust,…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle