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The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ...…
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I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end…
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I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I…
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we…
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In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,…
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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not…
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I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other…
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From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal,…
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Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is…
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We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing…
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow.…
— Josh Billings
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This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet
— William Shakespeare
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People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the…
— Berthold Auerbach
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May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
— Gustave Flaubert
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If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here…
— Gautama Buddha
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Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.
— John Keats
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The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.
— Jane Hirshfield
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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of…
— William Shakespeare
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There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process.
— Cassandra King
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