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Need Quotes by Tana French
- Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to…
- If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
- I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what…
- I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But…
- If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely…
- People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market.…
- We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls…
- Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To…
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