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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It…
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Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
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It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a…
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I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as…
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.…
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time,…
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My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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